Scripture Prompt
Don’t Be Double Minded about Single Mindedness
Think like God
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8–9 NKJV)
We don’t think right
We need to know this. We need to get it through our heads: Most people’s thoughts run to things yet here, things directly before us, or things inside us. Mostly our thoughts run to tangible things.
Food, shelter, transportation, or health are high on the list. Or we think about friends or enemies, jobs, time, or falling into bed. Or else, it’s constant, urgent distraction, such as the phone ringing or a holiday.
Our thoughts tend to the here and now, as opposed to the expanse of unknowable eternity. We tend to ricochet through each day — in our constant quest for whatever — and stop when we land in the pocket called exhaustion.
Yet, most thoughts of most people, no matter how pressing in the moment, at the point of exhaustion wind down, and in sleep, often disappear while the body demands equal time for replenishing and making “everything” better. Ever notice your thinking improved in the morning?
