His Precious Thoughts
If something is precious to you, what do you do with it? I have a heart-shaped necklace that my husband gave me on our 20th anniversary that I love (just celebrated 35 years yesterday!). I have several choices here. I could stick it in a lockbox and never take it out. I could wear it only on very special occasions. Or I could do what I have chosen, and wear it all the time and never take it off. In Psalms 139:17-18 New American Standard Bible we see that God’s thoughts are PRECIOUS:
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.
So what should we do with God’s precious thoughts? We find some of them in the Bible. Do we leave them in our drawer for safekeeping? Do we display them on a table as decoration? Do we only take them out on special occasions like Easter or Christmas? Or do we clothe ourselves with them every day because we cherish them so much? It’s our choice. What we do with His precious thoughts will indicate just how precious they are to us. Ouch! I know, I hurt myself there too.
“Precious” H3365 means “valuable, make rare, be precious, be prized, highly valued, be costly.” In terms of jewels, the more rare a jewel is the more valuable it is. The Hope diamond is very rare at 45.42 carats and this makes it the most costly diamond in the world worth $250 million dollars. God’s thoughts are also costly. In fact, for us to have His thoughts in our hearts, He had to redeem us and that cost Him His only beloved Son’s life. And 1 Peter 1:18-19 New American Standard Bible says:
…knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
At this point in Psalm 139, I can almost feel the psalmist’s bursting heart of gratitude after recounting throughout the Psalm how God planned ahead for him, intricately created him, brought His light into his darkness. It is an overwhelming thought just how much He loves us! Just how many thoughts must God have? We could not even count them because we are told that they would be more than the grains of sand. Scientists estimate there are 7.5 sextillion grains of sand in the world (that’s 21 zeros!).And God’s thoughts are more in number than that!
The last part of this verse, I love; “When I awake, I am still with Thee.” Yes, this is because God never went anywhere while you slept, since He Himself never sleeps or slumbers (Psalm 121:4). I like to picture Jesus, watching over me all night, then when I wake, He says, “She’s awake!”. I remember my parents telling me that they brought their first child (my sister) home from the hospital and the first night she slept through the night (Never heard of this before! None of my babies did that!). They were worried and hovered over her bassinet all night waiting for her to wake up. It appears that God does the same with us. He is watching over us while we sleep, and as soon as we awake, we can feel His presence, that HE IS STILL THERE.
Yes, He is ALWAYS with us and the best thing to do with His precious thoughts is to
TREASURE HIS THOUGHTS DEEP IN OUR HEARTS.
In His Love,
Suzanne
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