Rewire my Neurons, Jesus!

I was recently required to read a book for class entitled The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to Our Brains and was struck by what the author shared regarding the nature of our brain chemistry.  He explained, in the context of the internet, that as we adapt to using the internet more frequently, the way our neurons fire and mold into our varying cortexes literally changes our brains in drastic ways.  The neurons within the brain of a person who reads print books versus the person who spends a greater amount of their time reading pixelated fonts literally changes the anatomy of our brains.

As Darrell Johnson spoke of us being sojourners or resident aliens in this world, it reminded me of the fact that as he calls us to different places, to merely "just follow" him, he causes our brains to become rewired.  He restructures the ways in which our synapses fire and respond to stimuli.  In a spiritual sense, as we obey His calling to follow He carefully adjusts our spiritual composition to exhibit the words and actions required to follow Him in the midst of the "drag of the prevailing culture."

However, just as the book I was reading mentions, if we revert to our old ways, of reading print text over the hypertext, our neurons will once again reconfigure themselves.  As we subtly or overtly reject His calling in our lives, no matter how small, our chemical/spiritual makeup reverts to its old ways and we wonder why He is failing to respond to our current situations.  Well, it's simply that as he is rewiring our brains, we pull off the cords He is using and implant our own.  And, as much as I enjoy science, I have no idea how to rewire a brain like the One who authored them all.

But, thank Him for new grace, or as Romans 5:30 mentions, "grace abounding all the more."  Just as our brains can be rewired depending on our environment, God can call us sinners home, again and again and again because he continually "rewires" us despite the fact that we daily resist.  I hear people ask, "How can a God allow... X, Y & Z" but I think, "How can a God consistently, continually, and mercifully reconstruct me weekly, daily, hourly, minutely and offer me that new manifestation of grace despite my defiance?"

Just as Darrell says, Jesus is knocking at the doors of the White House, of the U.N., of my house, saying, "I can make this work!  Just follow me!"  And, I respond, "Okay, but how about tomorrow?"  And yet, he still offers me that new grace, over and over again.  Amazing!