Recapture the Wonder

by Ravi Zacharias

But this is what our society is so afraid to do in our day, is it not: to pause, to think, to reflect, to listen? I shudder to think of all that has been aborted in life, of creative ideas and so much else that has been lost to the imagination when we do not even think of the decisions we make or of the deeds we practice. Into this rushing lifestyle have come theories on meditation telling us how to think on nothing until we realize we are divine inside. The Scriptures do not tell us to empty our minds and think nothing but to exercise the minds God has given us to think on things that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, or praiseworthy (see Philippians 4:8), to meditate on His law (see Psalm 119:97), and “to take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5). So little of this is done that the mind becomes incapable of living in silence for even a short span of time. Wonder is retained by wise pondering. Unless we learn to think and reflect on things above we will reflect the hollowness of a world moving fast but slow to think.