I’m told that even the smartest of us only use about 11% of our brains. It makes us wonder whether those folks at the beginning of Creation were smarter than the average person is now. Probably not, because almost nothing had been invented back then, so far as I can read in the Bible.

And yet, what did they do with their time. For example, Methuselah lived for 969 years. He was the oldest on record. Noah lived to be 950. Adam, the first man, was 930 when he died. My subject here is the human brain, but you can’t help getting off track to wonder why men lived so such ripe old ages back then. And the answer is that sin had not yet gotten so imbedded. But as it did, men died younger. And by David’s time, God had allotted Man to 70 years, more or less, here on earth.

By the time the 17th or 18th hundreds rolled around, the age span was more like 40, but science, medicine and better foods have done wonders to add to our years, and now I think it’s more like the late 70’s, with women living a bit longer than men.

I have some one-liners as to that reason, but we won’t get into that.

But to get back on track here. can you imagine what a man could learn if he lived 900 years now! With knowledge doubling every few years now, a person could theoretically get so smart that he might imagine himself to be God. And that wouldn’t do. You may remember what happened at the Tower of Babel in the Bible. Men decided they would build a tower to heaven, so God made different languages so they couldn’t communicate, and the tower deal fell through. Of course people gradually found others of similar languages, and nations came along.

But even today with our short lifespan…a breath of air, compared to eternity…

there are still men like Einstein who learn so much in so short a time. But young or old, we all die. And the smartest thing a brain can do is to direct its human body to accept Jesus Christ. And here’s my thinking: When we get to Heaven, we’ll be able to use 100% of our brains, and we won’t have to ask Christ or God the questions we’re wondering about today. I believe we’ll know all then, as Christ does. I will be icing on the cake we call Heaven. I’d advise you to accept the salvation Christ died on the cross to give you. For free. It’s already there, waiting for you to accept it.

The smartest thing your brain will ever do.

37BT Bill Thornton Jan 21, 2007