Thinking Man
From Tozer’s “The Knowledge of the Holy”-Â “As nothing is more easy than to think,” says Thomas Traherne, “so nothing is more difficult than to think well.” If we ever think well, it should be when we think of God.
I seriously doubt that most people give much thought to what they think about or how they think. Perhaps the biggest problem in the contemporary church today is the lack of serious thought about the great doctrines of Christianity. JI Packer once commented that Christianity in America “is a mile wide and an inch deep”. One reason for this is that with the last several generations brought up on a steady diet of banal television, it is hard to get people to unplug from the world and be quiet long enough to have an original thought or to even think about God. Add to that the fact that the very medium of TV is designed to entertain and amuse, and you have a recipe for brain mush soup.
If you do a word search in any Bible software using the work “think” you will find that most of the verses are pointing out that people think wrongly about God and themselves- they think what everyone else is thinking and they think they are right. But to think with the masses is a dangerous thing- even in the church. We are easily deceived and self-deceit is the stuff parables are made of. In the parable of the sower, Jesus points out that what you hear and think about will have profound effects on your life-Â Â “Take care then how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.” (Luke 8:18)
I dare you to leave the TV off all weekend and think for yourself. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. (Philippians 4:8)
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