Friday, June 21, 2013

God Thinks Precious Thoughts about You


How precious are your thoughts about me, O God.  They cannot be numbered!  I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand!  Psalm 139:17 (NLT)

First of all, God thinks about you.  You can be wonderfully certain of this!  Even when He is far from your thoughts – you are never far from His.  Think about that.  God is thinking of you right now.  Not only is He thinking about you – His thoughts of you are precious thoughts.  How amazing is that!  God will never give up on you.  He will never stop loving you.  Why?  The reason is He is always thinking the best of you and about you.

If you are having a hard time believing this, perhaps you are confusing your thoughts with God’s thoughts.  Maybe you are projecting the image you have of yourself onto the image God has of you.

We see this very thing in Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32).  Although the title and most of the narrative focuses on one son, the story is really about the relationship between a father and both his sons.  Nevertheless the youngest son, left home, squandered all his money, disgraced his father and his father’s name by the way he lived.  So when he finally came to his senses and returned home – he had a much different image of himself than that of his father.  His father still loved him.  His father never gave up on him.  His father welcomed him back home with his loving arms wide opened.

Today God is thinking precious thoughts about you.  No matter if you have sinned.  God’s loving arms are open.  He will forgive you, embrace you and continue to love you.


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