I see the thoughtless soul yonder moving on all fours with the beast, looking for nothing more than food and drink the thoughtful I see walking erect with his brow toward heaven seeking for something which clods of clay cannot yield him. The powers of mind when rightly exercised upon eternal things, are the means of uplifting us to the highest point to which unaided human nature can attain, and low as this point is, it is vastly better than brutish carelessness. Thought is that which likens us unto God. The beast’s spirit goeth downward, and frivolous, thoughtless persons do as much as they can to descend to the grovelling level of the mere animal. When men do not think, and especially when they do not think of the highest and most important matters, they degrade themselves from the true position and occupation of immortal minds. To the majestic lion or to the monstrous leviathan, no speech could be addressed by God involving the terms, “My thoughts” and “Your thoughts ” but the Lord is here speaking to a creature of another mould which he has made a living soul, capable of fellowship with the invisible, the spiritual, and the divine. Other animated creatures which are put in subjection to the thinking, intelligent creature man, have no fellowship with God in thought into his world of pure spirit they cannot enter. The power of thought is one point in which man is made in the image of God. THE text speaks of thoughts it mentions the thoughts of man and the thoughts of God.
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. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
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