High Thinking

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Isaiah 55:9

There’s only one source for negative thinking, unhealthy emotions, anxious thoughts, impure minds, and fretful spirits—low thinking. We naturally see things from our own perspective. God looks at things differently, and His Word is the codification of His insight. As we trust His promises and see life through the lens of Scripture, we become high thinkers.

When the King James Version was released in 1611, the translators attached an “Address to the Reader,” which said, in condensed form, that Scripture “is a whole paradise of trees of life, which bring forth fruit every month . . . and the leaves for medicine. . . . A shower of heavenly bread . . . a whole cellar full of oil vessels; whereby all our necessities may be provided for. It is a [pantry] of wholesome food, against [moldy] traditions; a Physician’s shop against poisoned heresies; a [code] of profitable laws, against rebellious spirits; a treasury of most costly jewels against beggarly rudiments . . . a foundation of most pure water springing up unto everlasting life.”

When your thoughts are negative, unhealthy, anxious, impure, or fretful, turn to God’s thoughts, and let His Word dwell in you richly.

Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand.

EDWARD EVERETT HALE