Thinking Things Through

The old-time country mother, when asked by one of her children for approval to do something of significance, would reply, “We’ll have to wait and get the mind of your father first.” This is the meaning of having the mind of Christ. Words are simply formations of a thought process. Thus, God’s mind is found in His Word.

But once His thinking on a matter is ascertained, we must work it out to its logical conclusion. Sanctified logic is perfectly legitimate, as long as it is not placed first. You know, “the cart before the ox saying. We are to come at things scripturally, then logically. Samson’s mother is a good example of a scripturally logical thinker (Jud.13, notice verse 23). To get a firm grasp on truth, it must be thought through.

We need active thinkers; idle thinkers never get anywhere. Paul was possibly the world’s greatest thinker. You might say he was a born thinker. He was unable to leave anything alone; he pursued it to its very root. He was constantly thinking of the issues of life, and so should we be. Refusal to think things through to their end is the cause of most, if not all our problems.

Agatha Christie’s eccentric Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, referred of his brain as the “little grey cells” at work. Some of ours have been on the dole long enough; it’s time we put them to work!