Everyone knows at least one or two facts about the human brain. In the movie, Jerry McGuire, I always remember when little Ray says, “Do you know that the human head weighs 8 pounds?”  He was right of course, and inside our eight pound head is an amazing brain that weighs only three pounds.  

Over the last few days I have heard a number of different things about our brains. A video playing in the chiropractor’s office said that to match the number of “bits” of information the brain holds, a computer would have to be about the size of Texas.

It is a proven fact that we humans have the most complex brain of any animal on earth.  Scientists estimate that 70,000 is the number of thoughts that the human brain produces on an average day.  What in the world are we all thinking about anyway?

100 Billion

Then as I was walking through the family room at my house, I overheard on the National Geographic channel my wife was watching that the human brain has something like 100 billion nerve cells, all of them tucked away neatly in a three pound package.

A couple of days later, I saw part of a program on the History Channel about the brain.  They were talking about what the brain does during REM sleep.  REM sleep is that period late in our sleep cycle in which the brain and body become active, increasing heart rate and blood pressure.

They speculate that the brain files all of the past day’s date during REM sleep. It puts things into permanent memory storage, throws out unnecessary things, etc.

There are still many things about the brain that they admit is just speculation at this point.  One thing that all scientists will agree on is that there is a lot that we just do not know about the human brain.

Why Am I Blogging About The Human Brain?

So what in the world does all this have to do with having confidence in God and living your life with joy?  Is this article on the wrong blog?    Well, hang on to your hat; or better yet, put your hat on your brain and read on.

After hearing different and interesting things about the human brain over a 6 or 7 day period I started thinking, which of course is what the brain does.  I first, for just a moment or two, thought about evolution.

Am I really to believe that this magnificent three pound computer just evolved from the mud and the monkeys?  Our personal computers have certainly evolved over the years, but not all by themselves!

And, as a side bar, I often wonder if those who really do honestly believe that we evolved from monkeys ever go to the zoo and sit compassionately in front of the monkeys and try to console them.  They could say things like, “Gee, I’m so sorry you haven’t made it yet.  I don’t know why we did, and you didn’t; I am so sorry for you.”

Okay, I digress.

How Big Is His Brain?

But what I really thought about was the brain of God.  You may remember that back in Genesis, after everything was ready, God formed, made and created human beings.  And so I thought, if our brain is so magnificent and so complex that we can’t even figure it all out, how big must the brain of God be?

What kind of intelligence did it take to design and make the human brain?  It would have to logically be an intelligence that far, far surpasses that which He has made.  That’s logical, isn’t it?

Perhaps that’s why the Bible says that the foolishness of God is wiser than man.  I always think of that as if God ever cracked a joke, we wouldn’t get it.

The Bible also talks about how the wisdom of man is foolishness to God.  I always think of that as if God were to look at a blackboard filled with computations by Albert Einstein He would say, “Gee that’s really nice, Albert.”  To God it would look like Albert just figured out two plus two equals four.

The Scriptures make it very clear when it says of God, that His thoughts are not our thoughts, and that as the heaven is high above the earth, so are His thoughts higher than our thoughts.

And Here’s The Really Cool Part!

God imparts His wisdom.  The Bible is full of His wisdom that we can apply in our everyday life situations.  The wisdom from the Bible is both practical and logical.  That is one of the big things that attracted me to the Bible in the first place.  Someone showed me that it was logical, and that I didn’t have to close my eyes and just take everything on faith.

And God can also impart His wisdom to us personally, because He is a personal God.  It was Jesus Christ who introduced the world to the concept of God being our Father.  A loving human father would certainly want to impart his wisdom to his children, right?  What about our Father God?

Since the wisdom from God far surpasses all of our wisdom, we can have confidence in looking to God for wisdom to help with our situations and circumstances.  We can look to the Scriptures for real practical answers.  And we can also ask Him for more wisdom, having confidence that He will do what He said He would do, and that is to work within us.  He will impart wisdom to you if you but ask Him.

Living your life based on His wisdom is indeed living with confidence and joy.

(And by the way, if you know a cool fact about the brain, share it with us in a comment below.)

Mike Verdicchio

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