Richard Weaver rightly observed, "Thoughts and ideas have consequences." If the understanding is off, the activities that follow will be off. Behaviors flow out of beliefs. Our theology comes out our fingertips. If our understanding is bent, our undertakings will be too.
“We only progress in sound living as we progress in sound understanding... No man indulges an error of judgment, without sooner or later tolerating an error in practice.” — Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening
An imperfection in the cornerstone has implications for the rest of the building. Thinking precedes doing and nothing can be thought without infecting what is done. In other words, whatever is done is a product of something previously thought or in many cases, a failure to think. For unthinking minds are carried along by unthinking bodies and if the mind won't do the heavy lifting of thinking, the body will continue on with its habit of doing. While the mind can resist the urge to meditate, the body cannot abandon its urge to scratch and consume. A man's mind may hit the snooze button, but his belly cannot.
Philippians 3:19
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
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