Ironically, it seems the more information we obtain, the less we think. Our minds are full, but full of distraction. We jump from one idea to the next. We can be listening to someone speak at a dinner conversation WHILE texting someone else about tomorrow's business meeting. Most psychologists believe it is virtually impossible to listen to someone while texting someone else. We are simply too busy to think.
This is also why reading God's Word and prayer is so difficult. We are conversing with God while texting someone else, so to speak. Distractions are everywhere and they do not get less over time, they actually increase with time. So is it any wonder that Christians do not know how to process God's Word and perhaps, do not even try to do so?
One of our greatest problem as Christians is not that we think too much, but we think too little. Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote:
This is also why reading God's Word and prayer is so difficult. We are conversing with God while texting someone else, so to speak. Distractions are everywhere and they do not get less over time, they actually increase with time. So is it any wonder that Christians do not know how to process God's Word and perhaps, do not even try to do so?
One of our greatest problem as Christians is not that we think too much, but we think too little. Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote:
Faith, according to our Lord’s teaching in this paragraph, is primarily thinking, and the whole trouble with a man of little faith is that he doesn’t think. He allows circumstances to bludgeon him. We must spend more time in studying our Lord’s lessons in observation and deduction. The Bible is full of logic, and we must never think of faith as something purely mystical. We do not just sit down in an armchair and expect marvelous things to happen to us. This is not Christian faith. Christian faith is essentially thinking. Look at the birds. Think about them and draw your deductions. Look at the grass. Look at the lilies of the field, consider them. Faith, if you like, can be defined like this: It is a man insisting upon thinking when everything seems determined to bludgeon and knock him down in an intellectual sense. The trouble with the person of little faith is that instead of controlling his own thought, his thought is being controlled by something else, and as we put it, he goes round and round in circles. That is the essence of worry. That is not thought, that is the absence of thought.
We do not have enough faith to deal with life's circumstances because we do not think enough about God, about the gospel, about the reality of life in view of God and the gospel.