The Mind of God 

 So recently a young child from China wrote this viral essay;

 “Time passes very quickly. It’s midterm season soon, I already began nervously preparing for the test, I must begin working harder, because if I don’t work hard and review well, then my grades will not go up, and I will be scolded by my parents, and if I get scolded by my parents then I will lose self-confidence, if I lose self-confidence then I will not finish my studies, if I do not finish my studies then I will not graduate [from university], if I can’t graduate from university then I will not find a good job, if I don’t find a good job then I won’t be able to make money, if I don’t make money then I can’t pay taxes, if I don’t pay taxes then it will be difficult for the country to pay salary to teachers, if teachers can’t get paid then they will not be dedicated to teaching, if they are not dedicated to teaching, then this will impact our nation’s future, if our nation’s future is impacted, then it will be difficult for China to advance and develop, and the Chinese people will degenerate into a barbaric race. If the Chinese people degenerate into a barbaric race, then the USA will begin to suspect that our nation has large-scale murderous weapons, if our nation has large-scale murderous weapons, then the USA will start a war with China and World War III will erupt, if WWIII erupts, both the strengths of both the USA and China will not be enough, if their strengths are not enough then they will use nuclear weapons, if they use nuclear weapons then they will destroy the environment, if the environment is destroyed then this will create a big hole in the atmosphere, if there is a big hole in the atmosphere then global warming will escalate and the glaciers at both poles will melt, if the glaciers melt then the global water level will rise, if the global water level rises then the entire human race will drown and die. Because it relates to the survival and security of the entire human race, therefore I must spend the remaining next few days on review in order to do well on the test, and thus prevent a tragedy from happening.”

I think about how God might think like this. It's interesting because the Bible makes clear two things. That we must work hard and that we should be like Children. This essay demonstrates the importance of working hard. But what about the fact that it was written by a Child? Children are always looked at as innocent but this is a great example of how they are beyond creative.

Many psychologists miss this when examining Children and many preachers only focus on how God wants us to be happy and carefree like them. This young child's brain had not succumbed to the ridged grammatical structure of most adults. He probably didn't have to try hard at all to let his beautiful mind run free. He was naturally creative. His mind was running away into some unknown place taking the history of the world with it like a dream, but he was awake.

That's beautiful.

So Christians claim that God made us in his image and we always hear about how we don't use a majority of our brain. I'm sure scientists have a good explanation but Christians like to say that our minds have the potential for more because their mind was created for more.

Everyday about politics, religion and....uh....video games. Sigh. But one of the reasons we fight is because our conversations limit the chain of events like this essay above contains. The kind that reach a reasonable conclusion

 Many of us don't understand God, some of us like to think we do but I have to ask the question maybe this is how Gods mind works. God foresees everything that will happen in ways that would make the thickest fiction novel break from it's hinges. It might be like this viral essay. It might explain why we are so confused when God does this or that. So let your mind run free and think about how God could actually be working, and how we just might not understand because it's too much to calculate.