One of my favorite verses
is Psalm 139:17-18: “How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would
outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.”
(NIV)
I always thought, How
cool that the psalmist is so intimate with God that he knows God's
thoughts, and a lot of them. I hear God, but I wouldn't say like the
sand on the seashore. But God told me that's not what it means –
this passage is not about intimacy with Him. “Look at the
footnote,” He told me.
“What footnote?” In
my Bible, there's a footnote on the third word, to. The
footnote says concerning.
“How precious concerning
me are you thoughts, O God!” That changes the verses crazy! God
is thinking about me,
and He's doing it a lot. So you could read it this way:
“How
precious to me are your thoughts about me,
O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would
outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you,
because you're still here thinking about me.”
While I've been drooling into the pillow for the last 8 hours, God
has been with me, wringing His hands in expectation, thinking about
all the plans He has for me. “Oh, I can't wait for tomorrow,
bringing you one day closer to the plan I have for you.”
What
plan does God have for you today?
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