Between The Lines

Our brains don’t like gaps in information.

We’re not comfortable with things unknown…

And so we speculate. We fill in the gaps ourselves. We make stuff up.

I’ve done this often with songs.

Some lyrics are difficult to understand, and my brain just makes a guess.

What a surprise when I eventually read the actual lyrics years later!

My first reaction is to disagree—someone else must be wrong (certainly not me).

The truth is, my thinking is totally capable of being wrong, and often. Ridiculously wrong.

So is yours.

Which is why we need to be open to new thoughts—learning and being corrected.

“Don’t try to read between the lines or look for hidden meanings…” (2 Corinthians 1.13 MSG)

What a great reminder: our minds think wrong thoughts—we speculate incorrectly, we put stuff between the lines that doesn’t actually belong there.

Our thoughts need to be renewed.

Our brains can’t always be trusted.

Here’s the good news: God doesn’t lie and his Word tells us the truth.

So this is what we do: “We take every thought captive so that it is obedient to Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10.5)

http://made-new.com/