Are you committing this often overlooked sin?

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True story.

I used to hate reading.

And learning.

And thinking.

I was one of those kids in the “GENERAL” classes.

Until I realized that by having such an approach I was actually disobeying the Greatest Commandment.  

Now I try to love God with my mind as well as my heart, soul, and strength.

Often convicted (and then inspired) by this quote from Os Guinness:

 As God has given us minds, we can measure obedience by whether we are loving Him with those minds, and disobedience by whether we are not. Loving God with our minds is not ultimately a question of orthodoxy, but of love. Offering up our minds to God in all our thinking is part of our praise. Anti-intellectualism is quite simply a sin.

Your thoughts?

Is failing to love God with your mind a sin?

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  • Priscilla

    What a convicting, and encouraging, thought. I am not reading enough “meat.” Since my body’s not much good right now, it’s even more imperative that I keep my mind working — and in a positive (growing) direction.

  • Doc

    In Guinness’s world, aren’t creationism and dispensationalism ipso facto anti-intellectual? I think I remember getting something like that out of his book FIT BODIES, FAT MINDS. Each of those seems to me to accurately explain the Word of God.

    • Kary Oberbrunner

      Interesting observation. I don’t know.

  • Thuy (Twee)

    I actually think we have too many people loving God with their mind/head and not enough heart,soul (mind, feelings,will) and spirit. Our knowledge of God is way more than our experiential love of God. Jesus in John 17:26 desires that we love Him as the Father loves Him. It takes God to help us love God. He wants us to love Him with our emotions, our will (when we chose to submit&crucify our will)and our stregnth. This is best done through fasting though I don’t think He minds at all if we use it to jump up and down for Him.He wants it all.