Where is your mind? God cares about how well you think and what you think about Him. In this passage of scripture, one of the scribes came to Jesus asking Him a question. Now, there had been a lot of questions, as we have already talked about previously. Some of the questions were deliberate attempts to snare Jesus. But this scribe did not seem to have that same attitude. His interest seemed to spring from a love for the scripture, perhaps the love which made him want to be a scribe in the first place. At any rate, He asked the question, and Jesus answered it.
Then, the scribe gave a response back. He realized that Jesus’ response was truthful and very well said. He even went so far as to say that to love God in this way and to love one’s neighbor as one’s self is more than ALL burnt offerings and sacrifices. The scripture then says that when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, He told the scribe that he was not far from the kingdom of God. Literally, the word discreetly here means “having a mind.”
The mind often gets hammered by preachers. Development of the mind is scorned and ridiculed as unnecessary for those who proclaim that faith is totally devoid of thought. Jesus didn’t seem to agree. The fact that this man had thought through the laws of God enough to behold that God seemed to work more on principle than rules brought him very near to the kingdom of God. Please note: it didn’t bring the scribe into the kingdom; and that’s where faith is necessary. But too many people don’t even get as close as the scribe did because they never think about the truths of God to begin with. Where is your mind? Do you think about God’s Word? Do you have a mind? If so, then use it. Jesus notices.
Be blessed with good hard thoughts about God today.
