We've been thinking all week about the importance of remembering in the Christian life.

Years ago, we carpooled one of our sons with another family and I was driving our son

and their daughter home on the very last day of class and a little girl was expressing

pretty considerable anxiety about how difficult their next year at school was going to be.

And to my complete astonishment, my young son turned to her and said, there's nothing

to worry about next year because it's all a matter of revision.

I don't think he knew then at the age of eight or nine or whatever he was that he was

embracing a rather well-known and particular point of view of a philosophical school.

Because some philosophers have held the view on the one hand that the human mind at birth

is a tabular rasa, it's a totally blank slate like an empty computer disk that needs

programmed and populated with information.

But other philosophers and some neuroscientists as well have held the view that the human brain,

the human mind, at least to some extent, comes pre-programmed, already hardwired.

Otherwise how can you explain that human beings everywhere with very different languages

seem by and large to think in the same ways?

Well no matter whether the empiricists or the inatists as they're called a right, one

thing is for sure, none of us is born with the Bible already in our memory banks.

We need to put it there.

We need to program our memories with the truth of Scripture.

And as we know from God's word, this is how our lives are transformed.

The way in which the transformation takes place is by the renewal of the mind and the renewal

of the mind takes place through the truth of Scripture.

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