"God Gave Us A Brain"? Yikes!

"God Gave Us A Brain"  Who Do We Think We Are?

To believers who have been changed into a New Creation by Christ.  

John 14:16-17
16 "And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you."

Why would we try to figure out things with our own minds, when we have God Who created the universe, living inside of us?  God, Who created our very bodies, Who knows the end from the beginning, the details of our past and our future!

We are terribly prideful sometimes, we think we don't have to consult with God because we are convinced of our own abilities without even knowing the future, we tell God what He should do expecting Him to give us what we want.  

I wonder sometimes if God laughs at us as we tell Him what He should do, when He knows perfectly what should be done.  Instead of asking Him to show us what we need to be doing, we instruct Him as a two year old child would attempt to instruct his parents.  

We must look very silly to God at times. 

We think we are so intelligent, forgetting that God knows things we could never know, even our own hearts, He knows, we do not have the ability to look at our own hearts in truth.  We have an elevated opinion of ourselves that must make the Lord shake His head.

It must be insulting at times for the Lord, when His children boldly and brazenly command Him to do what they want, when the Lord knows what is best.  

John 14:16-17
16" And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you."

The Helper, the Holy Spirit is not someone living in us to do our bidding like a puppet on a string.  He is living in us to be our adviser, a coach Who continually tells us what to do and when to do it and which way to go.  He is God, with all knowledge and perfect wisdom. 

Galatians 3:3 "Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?"

I have heard it said that "God gave us a brain", in reference to being able to think things through on our own.  This is nothing more than an excuse to trust in ourselves, rather than admitting our inadequacy and trusting in Christ Who lives in us in the form of the Holy Spirit. 

We have a corrupted brain, we have talents and practical knowledge, but it is tainted by sin and the flesh.