I was reading an interesting fact from a well know author, Mark Batterson of Washington DC. He was reflecting on how fearfully and wonderfully we were made... for example the human body has approximately 100,000,000 (one hundred million) sensory receptors that enable us to see, hear, taste, touch, and smell. Neurologists estimate that an average three-year old has 1,000,000,000,000,000 (one quadrillion) synaptic connections! (Now, that explains 3 year olds!)
This means that our ability to imagine things in our mind is far greater than our ability to interpret physical reality. Mathematically speaking, imagination is ten million times more powerful than our five senses! This means that if we choose to limit our reality to what we can perceive we will limit our world to only our five senses. Since we know that faith is all about confirming "things we do not see...(and) perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses," we are challenged to live beyond our five senses.
Faith is "tuning in to ultimate reality...confirming things we do not see" and being certain of an invisible Savior. Faith requires that we imagine what our five senses can’t perceive or confirm. According to neuro-research, this "extra-sensory perception" is ten million times more powerful than our senses! (paulwilkinson.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/faith-is-living-beyond-our-five-senses)
Ephesians 3:20 says it well, "Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and throughout all generations for ever and ever, Amen."
The article ends with, "And to top it off, no mind has conceived of what God has prepared for us!" Our glorious future is God's reality!
Tuning in to our Godly ESP...dmc
PS - This is Joe's dad, CB Colaw's, heavenly anniversary. July 18, 2012 at 7:35 pm, at that very moment, Dad's reality became "immeasurably more!" Wow... imagine that!
WOW! This is absolutely fascinating. Thanks for sharing the neuro science behind biblical truths. I love it when science "confirms" what God has told us since the beginning of the world. Sometimes, I want to shout to various ones who tend to be argumentative, "see God told you so :)" Our finite minds just cannot comprehend all God has been, currently is and will be in the future.
ReplyDeleteI tell my little 4 year old grandson, that God is ALWAYS with him, even though he cannot see Him physically. Several months ago, I said that to him and he replied, "I know, Grammie, He is in my heart." I had never used that terminology with him b/c I didn't think he could understand it yet; the ways of God are a mystery to me.
Keeping my trust and faith in Him.
Carolynn Richmond
Amen
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