The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Psalm 139:17,
"How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!"
In this psalm David expresses how highly he esteemed God's thoughts. Clearly David placed a great value on them and from this we can surmise just how much he cherished what he knew to be the thoughts of God. Imagine… knowing the thoughts of the transcendent God who created the cosmos! Certainly those would be precious to know!
As one of the forty or so authors of Scripture, David was certainly acquainted with thoughts God has. Not being one of the authors of Scripture myself, and not being a prophet, how can I know the thoughts of God?
Peter makes a comment that is relevant here. He points out that those who spoke for God were carried along by the Holy Spirit and wrote the Scriptures. "Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." 2 Peter 1:20-21. Thus, Peter claims, we have the prophetic message as something "completely reliable", verse 19. Here is where I can know and cherish the thoughts of God - they are contained in my Bible!
We esteem how precious something is by the efforts we make to avail ourselves of it. When it comes to the thoughts of God, I can measure how precious they were to me last week by the investment of time and effort I spent last week in exploring and enjoying them.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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"How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!"
In this psalm David expresses how highly he esteemed God's thoughts. Clearly David placed a great value on them and from this we can surmise just how much he cherished what he knew to be the thoughts of God. Imagine… knowing the thoughts of the transcendent God who created the cosmos! Certainly those would be precious to know!
As one of the forty or so authors of Scripture, David was certainly acquainted with thoughts God has. Not being one of the authors of Scripture myself, and not being a prophet, how can I know the thoughts of God?
Peter makes a comment that is relevant here. He points out that those who spoke for God were carried along by the Holy Spirit and wrote the Scriptures. "Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit." 2 Peter 1:20-21. Thus, Peter claims, we have the prophetic message as something "completely reliable", verse 19. Here is where I can know and cherish the thoughts of God - they are contained in my Bible!
We esteem how precious something is by the efforts we make to avail ourselves of it. When it comes to the thoughts of God, I can measure how precious they were to me last week by the investment of time and effort I spent last week in exploring and enjoying them.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just reply and let me know.
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