Getting inside the mind of God
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
I believe at some point that every theologian has tried to get a glimpse of what is inside the mind of God. In truth we can get a glimpse of the incredible mind of God simply by looking at his creation. Take one of his creations as an example the (very) small part which is the mind of man; the brain is a soft lump of tissue weighing about 3 pounds. It's one of the most watery organs of the body, its outer tissues being 85% water. We have discovered that there is very little relationship between someone's brain size and their intelligence. Some very bright people have smaller brains than those who are less intelligent.
If we look closely at this one very small part of creation which is the mind of man we find that the brain continues sending out electrical wave signals as long as 37 hours after death. Since nerve cells can't respond, you have fewer of them as you get older. Person 70 or 80 years of age may only have 75% of the nerve cells they were born with. Nerve impulses travel more quickly than cars do with some up to 250 mph. If all the nerves lady and the it would stretch almost 45 miles. If all the nerve cell connections axons and didn't or tease from the human brain could be placed in the end, they would circle the earth many times. My point here is found in1 Corinthians 2: 16 "for who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ."
The evolutionist Stephen Hawking wrote "it would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us". In his book(a brief history of Time) he also wrote "then we shall be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist; if we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason for then we would know the mind of God." As men and women most all of us with average intelligence; we will not even hope to know the mind of God outside of our relationship with Jesus Christ. As a natural man or woman we will never be able to receive the things of the Spirit of God because they are all foolishness to those outside of Christ. Outside of Jesus Christ we cannot know these things because each one of them are spiritually discerned. That is why when Paul wrote to the Corinthian church in 1 Corinthians 2:1-5, he wrote"and I, brother, when I came to you did not come with excellency of speech or of wisdom; declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God."
It is this kind of wisdom and understanding in the mind of God that we so desperately need today. We are finding less and less in the numbers of people who really do understand this wisdom spiritually, and so we need to clean to the mind of Christ and stick very closely to his words of life. May you richly bless God through your life in him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
I believe at some point that every theologian has tried to get a glimpse of what is inside the mind of God. In truth we can get a glimpse of the incredible mind of God simply by looking at his creation. Take one of his creations as an example the (very) small part which is the mind of man; the brain is a soft lump of tissue weighing about 3 pounds. It's one of the most watery organs of the body, its outer tissues being 85% water. We have discovered that there is very little relationship between someone's brain size and their intelligence. Some very bright people have smaller brains than those who are less intelligent.
If we look closely at this one very small part of creation which is the mind of man we find that the brain continues sending out electrical wave signals as long as 37 hours after death. Since nerve cells can't respond, you have fewer of them as you get older. Person 70 or 80 years of age may only have 75% of the nerve cells they were born with. Nerve impulses travel more quickly than cars do with some up to 250 mph. If all the nerves lady and the it would stretch almost 45 miles. If all the nerve cell connections axons and didn't or tease from the human brain could be placed in the end, they would circle the earth many times. My point here is found in1 Corinthians 2: 16 "for who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ."
The evolutionist Stephen Hawking wrote "it would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us". In his book(a brief history of Time) he also wrote "then we shall be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist; if we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason for then we would know the mind of God." As men and women most all of us with average intelligence; we will not even hope to know the mind of God outside of our relationship with Jesus Christ. As a natural man or woman we will never be able to receive the things of the Spirit of God because they are all foolishness to those outside of Christ. Outside of Jesus Christ we cannot know these things because each one of them are spiritually discerned. That is why when Paul wrote to the Corinthian church in 1 Corinthians 2:1-5, he wrote"and I, brother, when I came to you did not come with excellency of speech or of wisdom; declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God."
It is this kind of wisdom and understanding in the mind of God that we so desperately need today. We are finding less and less in the numbers of people who really do understand this wisdom spiritually, and so we need to clean to the mind of Christ and stick very closely to his words of life. May you richly bless God through your life in him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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