The Mind

I wonder about the mind

What and where is it?

I know it’s a reality

Just from my daily habit.

It is something; that’s a fact,

To it we often refer,

Every human being uses it

I am sure on that we concur.

But where is it located?

Does anyone know?

Is there a part of the anatomy

At which it will clearly show?

Let this mind be in you

Says Philippians 2 and verse 5

But where within you

Does one’s mind survive?

Consider medical science

And its surgical procedures;

How oft have they entered a brain

But no mind there discovered?

Oft one may have said,

“I’ve a lot on my mind.”

Shouldn’t that add weight to a person?

But only a fool would so opine.

So what really is the mind?

And where is it located?

These are difficult questions to answer

Even among the most opinionated.

A simple yet compelling answer

Might very well be,

It’s part of man’s incorporeal

The corporeal being his anatomy.

Here the Psalmist praises his Maker

I refer to Psalm 139 verse 14:

“I am fearfully and wonderfully made,”

Shows God’s intelligence is supreme.

  

Perhaps when God breathed into man

Into him he breathed a mind,

A facility with which to think

And to God his thoughts incline.

It’s like the personal computer

With its advanced technology:

There are hard ware and software

That ensures its capability.

We know the hardware well:

The physical components put together

But if these were all to the computer

Not one single piece would matter.

What makes the computer run

Are programmes and apps we upload,

These essentially are its mind

That helps to achieve its goal.

Somewhat like cyberspace

That behaves like a universal mind

There we hide our written treasures

Where only we can find. 

Similarly the brain cavity and tissue

Comprise our hardware capacity

But the mind that’s somewhere in us

Is our software capability

There we store our thoughts

For retrieval in the time of need

Some we keep securely locked away

And upon them daily feed.

So that when we think of the mind

Don’t think of the what and where

Rather, think of its essential purpose

To contemplate why we are here.

Think on these things the Bible says

Things honest, true and lovely,

Set your affections on things above

Should be the mind’s foremost priority.

Stewart Russell © October 2017