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The Bible tells us to love the Lord with all our heart, strength, soul, and mind (Matthew 22:37). But we often forget how to worship God with all our mind.

Be Prepared to Give a Reasoned Argument

During our last Recovery Church meeting, questions were asked about baptism and freedom and faith and temptation and lots more quite deep and profound questions. It was a good discussion that prompted helpful questions about faith, well-being, and recovery.

Afterwards, on the way home, I realised that I was feeling happy and energised. I remembered a quote from a film.

God Made Me To Be Me

In Chariots of Fire, the screenwriters write a line for the actor playing Eric Liddell (the Olympic athlete who later became a missionary in China, where he later lost his life) to say. Unfortunately, Eric Liddell never said it in real life. But the quote captures how Liddell expresses his faith in the film. He says:

“God made me to be fast, and when I run, I feel his pleasure.“

Liddell worshipped God when he ran and competed, using the gifts God had given him.

But some parts of the church have often had a low view of the gifts of the mind, of reason. This is particularly true for my denomination.

We Need To Love the Lord with All We Are, Including our Minds

To love God with all of our mind is important and necessary.

We worship God when we think about God. We employ our reason. When we reflect and wrestle with the things of God in our lives and the world. When we read the Bible and try to understand what it means. Or when we sit together with friends to talk and think together about our faith journey.

The time and effort that is put into preparing and writing a sermon, which is the very best you can do, is a way of loving God with all our minds.

When I read, and study, and write, and talk, and preach, and debate, and argue, and teach, and prepare, I love God with all my mind. I offer God worship when I do it properly.

It is important not to shy away from the importance of worshipping and loving God with all of our minds.

God made me able to reason, and when I do, I feel God’s pleasure.

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