How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God! Psalm 139:17
The thoughts of God are wondrous. They are above our ways and even our imagination. And yet He gives us glimpses. So what do we know of His thoughts?
His thoughts are beyond our understanding
If I could understand God’s thoughts, He wouldn’t be big enough to worship. Who would want a God so small that He fit in my comprehension?
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares 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.” Isaiah 55:8-9
Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. 1 Corinthians 2:11
How great are Your works, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep. Psalm 92:5
His thoughts contain great plans
His thoughts are true and they come about. They are so powerful His thoughts and actions are one.
The Lord of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed.” Isaiah 14:22
God is not man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not fulfill it? Numbers 23:19
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:18
His thoughts are perfect, complete in knowledge of His creation
He oversees it all. Nothing escapes His awareness.
He counts the number of the stars; He gives names to all of them. Psalm 147:4
Those perfect thoughts include His intimate knowledge of us
He knows and understands me at my core.
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Matthew 10:30
For His eyes are upon the ways of a man, And He sees all his steps. Job 34:21
The Lord looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of men; From His dwelling place He looks out On all the inhabitants of the earth, He who fashions the hearts of them all, He who understands all their works. Psalm 33:13-15
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Psalm 139:2-3
His knowledge includes even my innermost thoughts
Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O Lord, You know it all. Psalm 139:4
His thoughts know and consider my need
… for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. Luke 12:29-30
His thoughts are consumed with love for us
He knows all and yet He loves us still. His thoughts are constantly toward us and filled with love.
“For I know the thoughts I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11
You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told. Psalm 40:5
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you by his love; He will exult over you with loud singing. Zephaniah 3:17
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38-39
Are you anxious? Does your heart need encouragement? Consider the God of the universe. Precious and mighty are His thoughts. Sit in His presence with awe and be at peace. He knows you. He’s thinking of you.
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