I’ve got a little science for you today, because I know how much we all love science. I will say though; and you’ll be pleased to know - initially this piece was five pages long and I narrowed it down to one and a half. After all, who wants to hear five pages of science?
I hope I haven’t mentioned this before. I do a lot of writing and sometimes things overlap. Having said that; the mind is an amazing piece of work. It can recall all sorts, from the trivial, to the extremely important.
Take a rainbow for instance. A little bit of trivia for you. A double rainbow’s colours read back to front. The stronger rainbow has all the colours you’d expect. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The weaker, second rainbow alongside the first, is a reversal of those colours.
Now most of you have just learned something new and next time you see a double rainbow you’ll check as to whether I’m right. My point being, we can all learn, even into old age.
There are 118 known elements, in the periodic table. Most of them are easy to remember; hydrogen is h, oxygen is o, magnesium, ma. Because ma is already used, manganese is a little different and shifts to the next letter along. Magnesium is ma, manganese is mn.
There’s a handful of elements which don’t follow the rules; sodium is na, potassium, k, iron, fe, silver, ag. There are others which fall into this category, but most of the periodic table is easy to recall.
And then there’s Pi. Do you remember pi from school? Pi is the circumference of a circle, divided by its diameter and that number is infinite. No matter what the size of the circle, the answer is always the same; Pi equals 3.14159265 ‘et al’ (or, and others).
I memorised the first hundred digits of pi, while I was away travelling. I’d given my testimony to my daughter’s church in Qld and told the congregation I can recall a 100-digit number, frontwards and backwards (this in relation to having the mind of Christ).
I got back to my daughter’s after church and thought; gee it’s been a while. I hope I can still do it.
Lizzie suggested the challenge - to memorise the first 100 digits of the infinite number in pi. I worked on it, on and off throughout the rest of the morning and I managed to do it, surprisingly quickly.
My granddaughter will test me on this, as she always tests me. Kristelle tells I’m the ‘cleverest person she knows,’ which causes me to chuckle inside. She’s 11 and only knows people around her age.
Anyway, the more numbers I rattled off, the wider Kristelle’s eyes went. As I reached the end of the 100 digits, I thought her eyes were going to pop right out of her head. My granddaughter was so impressed, she decided she wanted to learn it. She now knows what pi is and has the first 15 numbers down pat; not too bad for an 11-year-old.
Why do I tell you all of this? We’re under the false assumption that as we age, our mind deteriorates, but it’s not true. Barring illness or injury, our mind is kind of like a muscle and like any muscle, the more we exercise it, the stronger it gets, even into old age.
The brain has roughly, give or take a few billion, 86 billion neurons, 100 trillion connectors and 85 billion non neuronal cells, or glial cells. That’s a lot of activity in a cavity the size of a dessert bowl and you’ll never convince me this came about by happenchance. There has to be a creator behind it all.
1 Corinthians 2:16 tells us; “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”
Because we have the mind of Christ, the solution to our problem lies within each of us. Of course we need to remember, Jesus doesn’t live in reaction to the problem, but in response to the Father. And that’s where we should be also; not motivated by the problem, for the problem is caused by the devil, but motivated by the solution only Jesus can bring.
Coming back to rainbows; the second rainbow is the inferior rainbow. It’s the weaker of the two, just as satan is the inferior prince of this world. We need to remember who we are and not fall for the inferior, that part of us which allows satan to rule and reign in our life.
In life we have the inferior and the interior. Our interior should be following the word of God, putting into practice what we read in His word, so that we don’t live from the inferior. Our desire is to live as Christ lived, with full power and authority, living a superior life; a life encompassing all of the supernatural and more besides. For Christ said we shall do greater than Him and I know, that’s what I want to see in my life.
There’s a solution for every problem and if we meditate on God’s word, that solution will come to the fore. As long as you focus on the problem and not the solution, the problem remains.
Many western scholars have failed in life, for although they had knowledge, they didn’t have wisdom, the ability to apply that knowledge to its best and full purpose. We need wisdom. We need to ask for wisdom. The bible tells us to seek wisdom and righteousness and that’s what we should be doing with our time.
We have the mind of Christ and I praise the Lord that I do have the mind of Christ. He asks not that we be perfect, as He is perfect, but that we do as He does. He directs us to seek wisdom. What else does He ask us to do? He asks that we partake of the body and blood, often as we may, in remembrance of Him. So, go ahead and take communion in reverential fear today, as you acknowledge Him as the One True God.
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