Think On These Things

Good morning, friends! Happy Valentine's Day.

Here's David Jeremiah's Turning Point Devotional for today:

"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

Recommended Reading Isaiah 55:6-11

"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:

"Scripture is a paradise of trees of life, which brings forth fruits every month, and the leaves for medicine. It is a shower of heavenly bread and a cellar full of oil vessels whereby all our necessities may be provided. It is a pantry of wholesome food against moldy traditions, a pharmacist’s shop against poisoned heresies; a code of profitable laws against rebellious spirit; a treasure of costly jewels against beggarly rudiments, a foundation of most pure water springing up into 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 E. Hale

And a final note from Barnabas...God loves you so much that He not only gave you a Valentine Card, He gave you a whole book, His Love Story to you, the Bible. Revel in His love today. Tell others of His saving grace. Let your light shine. May you have a heart after God's own heart.

Be encouraged today, dear friends!