Every morning while I shave my wife reads our devotions from 2 different devotional guides and then she reads a chapter from a book or the current issue of Quaker Life. This mornings chapter was from Bruce Mckiver's book, Things I Couldn't Tell While Was a Pastor. In it he told of a sermon that he preached on using our minds. And he said that he was sure many people came to church and sat down and unscrewed their heads and put them under the pews. At the close of the meeting he noticed one woman lingering to speak with him and she apologized for the disturbance her son had made during the service. Bruce said he hadn't even noticed and asked what he did. The mother said the boy was down under the pews looking for heads.
There are many people who attend worship services and leave their minds at home it seems. We are to use our minds, not only while at worship, but all the time. Think carefully about what you believe and why. That's when it will make a difference in your daily living and in your relationship with the Lord of your life.
The writer of the book of Proverbs knew the importance of using one's mind when he wrote, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." Proverbs 23:7.
If you have doubts, so what keep on doubting, but don't just rest there. Keep using your mind until you resolve those doubts.
You can't use your minds too much and the more you use them the sharper they become and the more discerning.
The great thinker, Bertrand Russell said, "Men fear thought more than anything else on earth. . . Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."
So whatever else you do keep thinking the right thoughts and you will never be sorry.
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