Be Clear-minded, Thoughtful, Mentally Diligent
"Listen to me, everyone, and understand."
(Mark 7:14)
The mindset caused by modernity's worship of formula, easy answers, and add-water-and-stir religion has created a generation of Christians content to accept and mindlessly absorb whatever anyone tells us. Spirituality is no longer viewed as an energetic life of growth of heart and mind.
In the midst of this drift toward mental laziness, what do we make of Jesus' repeated exhortations to Take heed how you hear, and Hear and understand?
One of the foundation stones of an energetically thinking walk with God is his implied command: Be clear-minded, thoughtful, mentally diligent.
Bold thinking Christianity brings to daily faith a vigorous courage to search for spiritual truth, and to probe the depths of God's purpose, outside the box of learned dogma, cliché, and doctrinal formula. The bold thinking Christian does not live by pat answers or proof-texts but by practical reality that engages heart and brain in a harmony of obedience to the instructions of Jesus.
God, help me resist the cultural pressure and drift toward mental sloth. Awake in me the desire to be a thinking disciple of Jesus whose brain is awake and focused. Stimulate me this day to mental action. Prick my brain with disquieting barbs when I need to think with greater force about my faith. May my thinking discipleship influence the world for truth.
- From The Pocket Commands by Michael Phillips
https://wisepathbooks.com/prod....ucts/the-pocket-comm
