Noble Thoughts

"He is never alone who is accompanied by noble thoughts," wrote John Fletcher, a playwright who was a contemporary of Shakespeare.  500 years or so later, I have found that is still true.   Thoughts are powerful.  To me, noble thoughts are those that lift us above that which is carnal, evil or simply mundane.  Noble thoughts bring us closer to God because they are closer to his thoughts.   Isaiah recorded that the Lord thinks on a higher plane than we do, "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    Our limited mortal perspective does not allow us to always think and see as God does but I have found when fill my mind with noble thoughts, I become more sensitive to the spirit of the Lord.   That spirit fills my mind with peace, perspective and power to rise above the stress and strains of mortality.   Although all may not be well around me, all is well within when it's "just you and me, Lord."   Periods of being 'alone' become precious time to commune with and be strengthened by a wise and loving Heavenly Father.