‘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.’ (Psalm 139:17-18)
I was talking with a friend the other day, and we were both sharing the many blessings God had poured out on our lives. I was saying how overwhelming it all gets when I sit and think about it, and then she said something that captured how I was often prone to view God’s hand in my life:
“Sometimes I have to repent of being so small minded towards God. He doesn’t do average.”
How true this is! God is anything but average, and likewise are His works. He might do little things that are seemingly insignificant to us, and He might do things that we take for granted, but He doesn’t do ‘average’. He might make the winds rage, the ground shudder, and the earth scorch, but He could just as easily speak in the stillness of a moment (e.g. 1 Kings 19:11-12).
The Bible teaches us that God created the heavens, the earth, us; and He has not lost any of His Sovereign wisdom or power since the first day of creation.
‘There is no one like You among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like Yours. All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and they shall glorify Your name. For You are great and do wondrous deeds; You alone are God.’ (Psalm 86:8-10)
This Sovereign God delights in His people. He is attentive to every single detail of their lives: every need, every worry, every care. It is because of this understanding of God’s character that the apostle Paul wrote to the believers in Philippi, ‘my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.’ (Phil. 4:19).
Better yet, God’s thoughts towards His people cannot even be fathomed by us. In Psalm 103, the psalmist lists a few of the benefits God supplies to His people (Ps. 103:1-5), and then goes on to say in v11, ‘For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him.’
Indeed, God declares about Himself in His word,
‘…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.’ (Isa. 55:8-9)
Taking this passage along with the opening passage we read earlier, one thing starts to become obvious: God thinks about us A LOT more than we think about ourselves. He has blessed His people with ‘every spiritual blessing’ (Eph. 1:3), and has given them ‘great and precious promises’ (2 Pet. 1:4).
Then, as if to sum it all up—every thing that happens in the life of the believer (enjoyable or not)—Paul writes, ‘…God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.’ (Rom. 8:28)
What is it that you have been looking on to God for? What is the biggest blessing you can think of? What is the toughest trial you are going through that you think you can never overcome? Oh reader, how small your thoughts and worries are to my God! It may seem impossible to you, but ‘the things that are impossible with people are possible with God’ (Luke 18:27), because He has declared, ‘”I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for Me?’ (Jer. 32:27, NIV)
If you have not put your trust in Him yet, then I would encourage you to taste and see the goodness of my God; He overflows with love, grace and mercy that transforms the wondering mind and satisfies the longing heart… No longer do you have to live an average life.
‘Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.’ (Ephesians 3:20-21)
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