Deep or Justifiably Shallow?

So I’m trying to think of something profound to write in the blog, and to be honest, I couldn’t think of anything profound or even relatively deep. And then I got to thinking, why do we always have to think so deeply, so profoundly? (I mean we as a culture, not Justin, Scott and I that have blogged so far, although some of the following I think might pertain to us) It’s like we (our culture) are trying to flex our intellectual muscles in front of everyone, looking for that ooh and ahh found at Mr. Universe competitions. But instead of ooh and ahh, we want to hear an “ahh, good point” from our audience (I say this all the time to my husband and his friends because they’re much more deep than I am) . But has finding suitable friends, acquaintances and mates turned into a new kind of survival of the fittest- Survival of the deepest? I think it has in some circles of influence. Is this a good thing that we are constantly trying to outdo the last deep thought? (What would Jack Handy think about all this?) Like researchers or inventors always trying to outdo the latest medicine, technique or gizmo, we now have ordinary people trying to outdo the big thinkers, the really smart ones- Like God. There is a crop of Christians coming out of the “make your faith your own” era that seemingly can’t just worship God for how unfathomable He is, because they have to be able to understand the unfathomableness first. Not that reaching deep into Scripture and the character of God is a bad thing, not at all. But in the midst of good intentions, ask yourself, when you don’t get something about God, are your pursuits for understanding paralleled with an awe that to begin to understand God requires that you dig deep? Or are your pursuits for understanding just pursuits so that you can understand? I guess it’s comes down to our intent, our reason for our deep thought.

Andrea