Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. – Matthew 22: 37

Could it be that one cause for people not believing in God is that they either refuse to or are unable to love God with all of their mind? For them, the principle function of the mind is reasoning and rationality. This is what they use when they approach God. To this crowd, the existence of an omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent God neither adds up, nor makes sense.

They can’t see God with a telescope or microscope. They can’t measure God with a yardstick. They can’t interview God with a microphone. They can’t put God on a leash. They can’t reconcile the simultaneous existence of good and evil. They can’t figure out the meaning of life, nor why a good God would allow death. Surely, over the centuries, philosophers and theologians have debated the degree to which belief in God can be defended on the basis of reason and rationality.

While of course, I believe that it can, what interests me the most at this point is that maybe, some people have dismissed God and, indeed, missed God because there are many other parts of their mind which they have failed to aim at and apply to God.

If they went beyond the rational, perhaps, their curiosity would look for a Creator. Their Imagination would ponder the Mind behind the inter-connectivity of all that is. Their wonder would be enchanted by the beauty of the world. Their thoughts would lose themselves in the unanswered or even unanswerable questions of life.

Loving God with all of your mind means applying every angle of it and using every ounce of it to understanding God, then turning what you eventually know into serving God. When you love God, don’t just your use your head. Use your whole mind!