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Not too long ago I read that researchers in Detroit say the more you learn,
the better your protection against the loss of brain function as you get
older ... but that won't keep your brain from shrinking.
It's inevitable: the human brain shrinks about two-and-a-half percent each
decade beginning in a person's 20s. Scientists at Henry Ford Health System
have found that people with higher education levels have more pronounced
age-related brain shrinkage than those with fewer years of schooling. So
getting smarter may actually cause the brain to shrink, but education helps
those people better tolerate the changes and gives them more protection
against mental impairment and dementia.
My question for you is this, "As you get older, are you learning more about
God's will for your life or not?" It seems to me that as we grow older we
should become more spiritually minded and more in tune with the Lord. But I
have observed that this isn't necessarily true. The sad reality is that
there are a lot of spiritual midgets among us. Or as the Hebrew writer so
accurately states in chapter 5:11-14, "We have much to say about this, but
it is hard to explain because you are slow to learn. In fact, though by this
time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary
truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone,
who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the
teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by
constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil."
What about you? Will you be in Bible Class this week?
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