Verses: Psalm 139নমুনা

We’re currently on our eighth day memorizing and meditating on Psalm 139! Today’s verses build on last week’s foundation in verses 15 and 16, which remind us our God is the frame and future forming God. These verses shed light on the psalmist’s reaction to God’s prior action and providential work in his life. > “How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.” Whereas early in this chapter, the psalmist largely reflected on God’s knowledge of His thoughts, he now turns his attention to his knowledge of God’s thoughts. In particular, the psalmist says God’s thoughts are precious to him. While we might think of God’s thoughts as true, oh, that we would think of them as precious! Would they be valuable treasures that we search for, take hold of, meditate on, and then share joyfully with others. Charles Spurgeon reflected: > “It is a joy worth worlds that the Lord should think upon us who are so poor and needy: it is a joy which fills our whole nature to think upon God; returning love for love, thought for thought, after our poor fashion. How great is the sum of them! When we remember that God thought upon us from old eternity, continues to think upon us every moment, and will think of us when time shall be no more, we may well exclaim, ‘How great is the sum!’ Thoughts such as are natural to the Creator, the Preserver, the Redeemer, the Father, the Friend, are evermore flowing from the heart of the Lord. Thoughts of our pardon, renewal, upholding, supplying, educating, perfecting, and a thousand more kinds perpetually well up in the mind of the Most High. It should fill us with adoring wonder and reverent surprise that the infinite mind of God should turn so many thoughts towards us who are so insignificant and so unworthy!” God’s thoughts are precious to the psalmist, but they are also vast and innumerable! While human thoughts are finite and searchable by God, God’s thoughts are infinite and unsearchable by humanity. Imagine a child attempting to count the grains of sand at the beach! However, just because we can’t count or know them doesn’t mean we can’t know some of them. In His great mercy, God has made Himself known in Scripture, through His Son, and by His Spirit. In his classic book “Knowing God,” JI Packer commented that while we can’t know God fully, we can know Him truly. May this truth both humble us but also lead us to press on to know this God who’s made and makes Himself known! As the psalmist meditates on the precious truth of God’s presence, he is led to a place of intimacy with God as he thinks on His nearness to him at all times. Bruce Walke commented, > “‘With you’ connotes presence and community. Lovitt says: ‘it connotes a mutuality based on participation in an inclusive reality or relationship.’” Be it lying on our physical beds or our death beds, God’s faithful presence with us can’t help but bring great hope to the Christian who’s found a home in Christ through faith in Him. May the thought of His presence be precious to us. Memorize & Meditate 1. Pray David’s words from Psalm 119 to God: “Open my eyes to see wonderful things in your law.” Ask God to reveal Himself to you in His Word, that you might know Him more. To truly know Him! 2. Read Psalm 139:17-18. What stands out? What’s encouraging? What’s confusing? 3. In your journal, write out verses 15-16. The intention here is to slow down a little with the passage and linger. 4. Listen to Psalm 139:17-18 by Ryan Delmore. 5. What do you spend most of your waking hours meditating on? What sort of difference do you think it would make to your days if you began spending more time meditating on God’s thoughts and the reality that God is actually with us and loves us? Over the next few minutes, meditate on some of the truths of God’s numerous loving thoughts toward you. Credits Song by Ryan Delmore. Devotional by Joel Limpic. There is an audio attachment for this devotional. You can [ download the audio ](https://plan-audio-cdn.youversionapi.com/uploads/supplemental-audio/ce3057fe-ae3d-436e-959a-cd84adfc2062.mp3) if you wish.