October 21
________________________________________HOW PRECIOUS ARE YOUR THOUGHTS OF ME!
For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;
16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You. – Psalm 139:13-18
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In this psalm, we hear David declare God’s magnificent work of creating man. For you formed me in my inward parts and wove me in my mother’s womb is a picture of how God watches every aspect of our being. He made sure that we are wonderfully made and also full of fear and awe of Him. When David says that “My frame was not hidden from You in verse 15, he declares that God’s omniscience and omnipresence. Even though we humans were made in secret inside our mother’s womb, it is not hidden from God. God sees all the details of our unformed substance even before we were born. He has written our names in His book of life and considers us his prized possession. Only God sees us as precious and only those who are in Him can we see how He values all of the jewel of His creation. His thoughts are wonderful and his love for us is unfathomable.
No wonder Satan does his best to destroy these precious and wonderful thoughts God has for all those whom He loves. The enemy twists these loving thoughts into lies about our identities. God wants us to never believe such lies because it keeps us in bondage. He wants us to know how much we are loved that’s why He gave us His only Son.
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REFLECTION
• How precious are your thoughts of God? Is it as valuable as He thinks of you?