Facts > Feelings = Positive Faith

As part of my passion to communicate the ideas in The Happy Christian, I asked the designer, Eric Chimenti, to produce some graphics that would encapsulate the message of the whole book (see yesterday’s post) and the essence of each chapter. I loved what he produced and also his explanation of the thinking process behind each image.

“The cloud in the middle represents both our brains that need retraining and the clouds of bad thinking that obscures our vision of God and what is truly true. The happy Christian has focused on what is important.”

Eric rightly identified Psalm 77 as the basis for the biblical formula Facts > Feelings = Positive Faith. There we see the psalmist moving from sadness, pessimism, and even depression to confidence, optimism, and hope; and He does so by focusing less on his feelings and more on the facts about God’s character, God’s works, and God’s Word.

Better facts produce better thinking; better thinking produces better believing, and better believing produces better feeling.

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