Thinking of You

But I am poor and needy;
yet the Lord thinketh upon me:
thou art my help and my deliverer;
make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalm 40:17

All of us want to be thought of by someone...anyone. We live in a busy world where it would seem in the cluttering of our minds there is little thought for family, friends or acquaintances in general. People can work full time with co-workers for long periods of time without saying a kind or encouraging word. It's not necessarily deliberate, but is thoughtless to say the least. Families are spread all over the country these days. In most cases, such moves haven't been deliberate; it's just the way it's turned out with a mobile society. With that has come a lot of “out of sight, out of mind” thinking. People get busy where they are and keeping in touch can become slack.

Just because I don't live near any three of our children and don't have the privilege of seeing them as often as I'd like, doesn't mean I don't love them or don't think about them. I am happy for those who have had parents, grandparents in the same town or even neighborhood. I haven't known that kind of thing since leaving for a college in Kansas after high school graduation. However, I have found from what some ladies have told me that living near family doesn't mean that relatives give loving thought of one another.

I have received cards, letters and even e-mails that may say the usual in a closing statement: “Thinking of you.” I have said that very thing under the same circumstances and I try to be honest when I say it. If I say I'm thinking of someone and haven't, then I've lied. That I know of, the governor of my state hasn't been thinking about me. I know the President of our country hasn't been thinking anything about me. I could name spiritual leaders in our country that I'm sure as I can be who don't even know my name and that's no fault of any persons I've mentioned.

Here's the unbelievable fact of my life, and by the way, of yours as well:

God thinks about me!

Yes, me...one of millions...God thinks about me. In various places in Scripture I read from God: “Thinking of you.:” For instance:

How precious also are thy thoughts
unto me, O God! How great is the
sum of them.
Psalm 139:17

What a precious thing that the very God of the Universe, Creator, Protector, Provider and every other characteristic of positive note, thinks about me. He thinks about me not just once in awhile, but thinks of me more times than can be counted.

                For I know the thoughts that I think
toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts
of peace, and not of evil, to give you
an expected end.
Jeremiah 29:11

I get chills as I read the above verse. God is firm in His thinking. He wants me to have His peace in my life. I'm also assured God knows my end because He's in charge of my life and the lives of everyone else. In that process, He's thinking about me.

Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful
works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts
which are to us-ward: they cannot be
reckoned up in order unto thee:
if I would declare and speak of them,
they are more than can be numbered.
Psalm 40:5

The Psalmist, David, had more enemies than he knew what to do with. He was on the run for a very long time. If it wasn't King Saul, it was his son Absalom who was after him. David loved both, but that love wasn't returned. With little love, there is generally little thought for someone. David consoled himself in the fact that if no one else on the earth thought of him, God did...in abundance. He saw God's wonderful work on his behalf and the thoughts of God toward him that were more than he could comprehend. He states in his words that those thoughts couldn't even be counted. I pray you and I will realize that God's thoughts toward David weren't just for David. Those same thoughts and good works shown toward David are available and available in our lives as well.

On my loneliest day, even though it may be a time when I don't think anyone in the world is giving me a thought, I can rest in my mind and spirit that THE God of the universe thinks about me. He thinks about me because of His love for me. No, I don't see a face as we know faces, but I can see Him by faith, I sense His face turned toward me as He lovingly showers me with His thoughts. Every day...in every way...my Heavenly Father says: “Thinking of you!”. By the way, He says the same thing to you as well. You can hear Him in nature around you and through His precious Word.

Thank You Father for thinking of me like You do. I know Your thoughts come as a result of Your love and I so love You for loving me. I'm not deserving of that love because I let You down so often. You see everything about me and yet You consistently shower You thoughts and love on me. I can't express to You how much I love You....in Jesus' precious name....Amen