Dear Friends,
Some time ago my attention was drawn to the fact that GOD THINKS! Yes, He does! And the Scriptures give us some fascinating insights about His thoughts: the magnitude, the immensity, and infinity of them.
Isaiah quotes the Lord: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways…For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” The vast disparity between our thoughts and His is hardly comprehensible to our finite minds. (Isaiah 55:8,9)
Again, Isaiah tells us that “Jehovah of hosts has sworn saying, ‘Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.” The Psalmist tells us that God’s thoughts are very deep and profound, that His counsel stands fast forever, the thoughts of His heart to all generations. (Isaiah 14:24; Psalm 92:5; 33:11)
Then He also indicates how personal His thoughts are: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward YOU,” says Jehovah, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give YOU a future and a HOPE.” (Jeremiah 29:11)
When we are burdened with troubles and cares, He invites us to come to Him for solutions to our problems, strength for our daily tasks, and rest for our souls. “Let Him have all your worries and cares, for He is ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT YOU, and watching everything that concerns you.” (1 Peter 5:7 LB)
It matters to Him about you,
And He means to see you quite through.
The might of His hand
No pow’r can withstand;
He ALWAYS is THINKING of YOU!
“Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which You have done, And YOUR THOUGHTS which are TOWARD US, no one can recount to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered!”…”Though I am poor and needy, YET THE LORD THINKS UPON ME…” (Ps. 40:5, 17)
The translators of The Message version tell us that “the world’s a huge stockpile of GOD-wonders and GOD-thoughts.” When we try to talk about them, we “quickly run out of words.” His wonder-full works and His ineffable thoughts are indeed indescribable.
“I will give thanks unto You; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book they were all written, even the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are YOUR THOUGHTS UNTO ME, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand!” (Psalm 139:14-18)
What an astounding revelation! GOD’S THOUGHTS toward us are CONSTANT and NUMBERLESS! And they are all for GOOD!!
“…in His Love, He chose us as His own in Christ before the creation of the world…” (Eph. 1:4)
Before He formed a star
Our God arranged our lot;
Our little lives were planned afar
When we as yet were not!
Yes, God thinks!
And He thinks about YOU!
”Now the God of all HOPE fill you with all JOY and PEACE in the believing,
that you may abound in HOPE through the power of the Holy Spirit.”
(Romans 15:13)
In Agape, Eulene
