From stinking thinking to thinking straight & well


CRUCIAL ROLE OF GOOD THINKING The prospering of God’s cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well. Today we are apt to downplay the importance of good thinking in favor of strong faith, and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith. 

They do not realize that in so doing they are not honoring God but simply yielding to the deeply anti-intellectualist currents of Western egalitarianism, rooted, in turn, in the romantic idealization of impulse and blind feeling found in Hume, Rousseau, and their nineteenth- and twentieth-century followers. 

They do not realize that they are operating on the same satanic principle that produced the killing fields of Cambodia, where those with any sign of education, even the wearing of glasses, were killed on the spot or condemned to starvation and murderous labor. 

Bluntly, to serve God well we must think straight. Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil. To take the information of the Scripture into a mind thinking straight under the direction and empowerment of the Holy Spirit is to place our feet solidly on the high road of spiritual formation under God. 

The psalmist told us, The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. . . . The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. (19:7-8) 

To bring the mind to dwell intelligently upon God as presented in his Word will cause us to love God passionately, and this love will bring us to think of God steadily. Thus God will always be before our mind. In this way we enter a life of worship. 

To think of God as he is, one cannot but lapse into worship, and worship is the single most powerful force in completing and sustaining restoration in the whole person. It puts into abeyance every evil tendency in every dimension of the self. It naturally arises from thinking rightly of God on the basis of revealed truth confirmed in experience. Worship is at once the overall character of the renovated thought life and the only safe place for a human being to stand.


 

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