The human brain is a small package. It only weighs 3 pounds, yet it is the home of our conscious thought, involuntary body function, and emotions. It is where all that is represented by our personality resides. We're talking about 100 billion nerve cells and a quadrillion connections between nerves. The brain uses about 25% of all the body's energy (infant brans consume 60% of their energy). The entire brain is surrounded by special fluid to protect it from shocks and every day the body makes about half a quart of new fluid to keep it fresh. I think it's amazing that, as complex as the brain is, and as multi-tasking as it functions, with thousands of conscious and automatic processes being handled every second...we feel a seamless oneness to who we are. We don't feel like we are the sum of multiple processes and our experience in living is, generally, a focused attention on whatever we set our minds on. In a sense, part of the brain functions as a servant to do all the maintenance functions so that the conscious areas of thought can use wonderful qualities of imagination, problem-solving and communication. Scientists still have a hard time isolating just how the brain defines consciousness. Somehow, I suspect that beyond all the neurons, fluid and physical energy there is an eternal soul that lives temporarily in our brain but goes on in a new body when we leave this earthly dimension. And then, we know that our head needs the covering of another Head.
Colossians 2:18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.
blessings,
Rob Smith
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