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To Think With Your Own Head
Are you inclined to simply defer to the majority, or you're ready to think and weigh for yourself?
Do you consider normal for the vast majority to be always right, or you're ready to do at least some research and to check whether it's really like they say?
Both the history and the experience show that many people accept the opinion of the vast majority without any personal review,
without a bit of critical thinking or at least some curiosity which would prompt them to think for themselves about those stands and beliefs they accept.
A lot of people don't care at all if regarding some issue all have, perhaps, gone astray together, or if this vast majority was maybe totally wrong and in error.
I believe there are multiple reasons for the fact that people don't use the gift of thinking with their own head.
One of the reasons is laziness, that is, a lack of will to engage oneself in thinking about some important life issues.
Another reason is cowardice or fear of being mocked and rejected by the majority if we would start to think or act differently.
The third reason may be a habit of non-thinking, because our family or society has raised us that way.
We are accustomed to let others think for us and to make decisions in our stead, and we are simply agreeing with someone else's decisions and beliefs.
Deferring to the majority, we feel safe, without worry, without effort and without responsibility. In other words, „care-free and brain-free.“
My mother used to tell me: “Only a fool doesn’t change his opinion after he clearly understood that he’s wrong.”
To many of us, this isn’t easy, because changing opinion if we’re wrong demands
humility and honesty before ourselves and before those who convinced us that we’re wrong.
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, on one occasion said one really important truth about the relationship between
between the thinking of the majority and the thinking of the minority.
He said: “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.
But the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
In other words, there exists a way which is broad and ends in death, in destruction – and most of the world in which we live goes in that direction.
At the same time, there exists a narrow, strait way, which leads to life, to salvation – and along this way walks the minority.
This is a question of life and death, so check seriously and honestly if you’re on the broad or the narrow way, because there is no third one.
According to God’s word, the broad way is full of lies and diabolic deceptions, and the narrow way is the way of the one-hundred-percent, pure, perfect truth.
Up until I was 22, I was on the broad way, blindly believing the opinions of the majority, and I became one deeply unhappy, unsatisfied and selfish man.
And then, finally, God succeeded in an effort to catch the moment of my attention and reveal to me his narrow way, the way of Truth.
And the Truth is something far, far better and mightier than a lie or a half-truth.
Jesus personally, is the Way, the Truth and the Life eternal.
He was crucified on the Cross so that he could, by His unutterable love, expose every lie once and for all, and secure us the eternal life.
He calls you up to think with your own head, and not with the head of the majority.
He invites you to the narrow and eternal way of Truth and love.
Jesus is alive, Jesus is present, Jesus is wonderful!