A Thought for Thinkers

Any regular reader of The Journal is aware of the fact each article, for the most part, is to challenge thought. These essays are not for “spoon-fed” Christians, but rather for those who desire to go a little deeper and hold their breath a little longer than the average, without boasting of the fact they’re capable of doing so.

One of the many descriptive terms God chose that His people might betterunderstand His various attributes, and character is, The Word. Now we know a word is a direct result of a thought, therefore, our God is a thinker. Thus, being made in His likeness and image, He gave us a mind to think with. And, generally speaking, each adult individual is capable of thinking for himself or herself.

It is to these independent thinkers I have a warning. I have found thinkers are more prone to be worriers than those who keep their minds always out of gear and in neutral. Martyn Lloyd-Jones says it so well. “Thinking is right up to a point, but if you go beyond that point it becomes worry and anxiety and it paralyses and cripples. In other words, although it is very right to think about [particulars], it is very wrong to be controlled by [them].”