Use It Or Lose It: The Brain

-The Brain-


In your head there is a brain (now we know its there, but the question is, do you use it). In your brain there are 100 billion neurons (pictured left), plus 10,000 connections working to control the body. You see, when you stand on your legs you think, "My legs are making me stand", but it is actually your brain that is making you stand. The brain sends a message to your legs that says, "Hey, Jon is going to stand-up now, get your muscles ready.", and the legs respond. Think about it, it is the main thing that makes you stand. It is just one of God's great things he made for you.

Consider this, every thing from your body temperature, heart rate and breathing are all taken care of. When I say taken care of I mean this: you do not even have to think about doing it. Your brain acts on its own for those things.

It takes in all sorts of information. What you say, see, do and hear will affect your brain and therefore will affect your thinking. Lets look at the seven (7) different parts of the human brain:

1.First we have the Cerebrum. This big chunk of useful "meat" makes up for 85% of the brain and is responsible for the thinking, memory, voluntary actions, etc..

2.The Thalamus is there to send info. to you Cerebrum.

3.Your Hypothalamus is the one who tells you what you need, and sometimes what you should not have. It tells you that you should eat or drink. It also controls the heart and intestines to name a few.

4.And your the Pituitary Glands control all the other glands in the endocrine system.

5.Cerebellum means "little Cerebrum" and is located on the back of the brain. Is controls the bodies movements and balance.

6.Pons is not a chess piece in your brain. Although game geek's would love for you to think that. It is however, the piece that links the fore-brain with the Cerebrum and the medulla olongata with the Cerebrum.

7.Last, but not least, the Medulla olongata is the thing that keeps your heart beat going. It is also the place were all other messages must pass though before going anywhere in your body.

Without your "little thinker" you could not possibly think, move, talk, breath, walk, stand or even be alive.

Now the main thing I am getting at is this. What you think about in your brain makes and shapes you into what you already are and/or going to be.

In Psalm 101:3, (in today's society we think of "101" as having to do with instruction, so lets view it as that also), it says this, "I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me."
Think about it, why would David be concerned with setting wicked things before his eye's? Why? He knew that by setting those things before him it would ruin his thought's; by ruining his thought's, he would ruin his actions.

To prove this look at what he later did in life. When David saw Bathsheba, wickedness went into his brain that sent an adultery type message to his heart. His thoughts were ruined and his actions proved it. David later repented of this great sin; God did forgive him.

Let us conclude with these verses from Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil."