A Perspective on Thinking

An excerpt from a John Piper article posted on the recent Catalyst site caught my attention. It was the first word of the paragraph that kept me reading further until I eventually clicked on "more" to read the full article.

I'm a thinker. Sometimes I wonder: Do I think too much? What should I do with all my thinking? When does it cross the line of an unhealthy introspection? Does my thinking stifle my doing or does it generate momentum in my life?

I found Piper's article - Seek it Like Silver - worth the read as he sorted through his own tension with thinking and feeling and doing. It gave me something to think about :). A new perspective for those of us who think a lot.

Perhaps the following paragraph will whet your appetite for more.

Thinking is indispensable on the path to passion for God. Thinking is not an end in itself. Nothing but God himself is finally an end in itself. Thinking is not the goal of life. Thinking, like non-thinking, can be the ground for boasting. Thinking, without prayer, without the Holy Spirit, without obedience, without love, will puff up and destroy. (1 Cor. 8:1) But thinking under the mighty hand of God, thinking soaked in prayer, thinking carried by the Holy Spirit, thinking tethered to the Bible, thinking in pursuit of more reasons to praise and proclaim the glories of God, thinking in the service of love–such thinking is indispensable in a life of fullest praise to God.