The Feast

I have been reading from Solomon’s proverbs this morning. He spoke volumes about our thought life and the positioning of the heart. Let’s begin with an example.

Proverbs 15:15 All the days of the afflicted are evil. But he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast.

The Hebrew word for afflicted literally means “to be depressed in mind”.  On the other side of the coin is the merry heart.  The merry heart has a continual feast, or the blessing just keeps coming and coming. I like that. It reminds me to keep my heart in the right position. Solomon said in another place. “Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.”

Wow! I am thinking the feasting sounds good right now. My heart, your heart is powerful! Out of heart are our boundaries set, or as our heart is enlarged.  When the psalmist David was in hiding in a cave he proclaimed. “My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing, yea, I will sing praises.”

By singing praises we position our most powerful instrument the recreated heart. Out of your heart flows life. Out of our inmost being flows the course of our life. 

You may say to me “I can’t help it, I am depressed today” I can relate. I have been there. The psalmist David has been there. We are instructed in another place “for the spirit of heaviness, put on the garment of praise”! 

Put on that garment! Don’t wait another minute! Put it on, put it on! Reposition your heart today.

Higher Thoughts= Higher Ways

           ISAIAH 55:7-9 the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither 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.

       Notice the Prophet says the wicked man should forsake his way. The way is trodden path a habitual way of acting or a course of life. The way is a system of thought which has become an action that is accomplished on a regular basis.

     

      Unrighteousness begins in the thought life. Everything begins in the thought life and the thought life gives birth to a way or a habit.

       Change your thinking=Change your life. Notice that way here is equated to action, and also is accentuated by the word “wicked”. The unrighteous man is told to deal with his thought life.