Our Bible verse for today: “How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.” Psalm 139:17-18 (NIV)
Our thought for today: “You are never out of God’s thoughts.”
I love the beach. I was raised in central New Jersey, not far from the Jersey shore. As a young adult I spent twenty-one years in the Navy and therefore was always on or near the ocean. My family and I lived in Southern California for over twenty years, never far from the beach. To this day my wife and I spend our summer vacations at the beach. There’s nothing quite like the feel of warm sand between your toes. (My favorite is the sugar-white sand of the Florida gulf coast).
A grain of sand is a tiny thing, almost microscopic. It takes hundreds of billions of them just to cover a small portion of beach. In Psalm 139 David gives us a glimpse into the infinite mind of God by telling us that the thoughts of God exceed in number all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the world. That’s a lot of sand. And it’s a lot of thoughts in the infinite mind of God.
The interesting thing about Psalm 139 is that it’s all about God’s intimate awareness of the writer. David is writing about himself and he is describing how intimately he is known by God. In verses 2-3 David affirms that he is never out of God’s sight. In verse 4 he says that God is so aware of his (David’s) words, that God knows them before they even make it out of David’s mouth. In verses 7-10 David affirms that he is never out of God’s presence. In verses 13-15 David explains that God even knit him together in his mother’s womb. Verse 16 tells of how, even before the day of his birth God had already decided the total number of days of life David would have.
Within the context of all that intimacy and Godly awareness, in verse 17 David makes reference to the infinite mind of God. All of those Godly thoughts that exceed even the grains of sand? They include you. That was David’s point. You are included in the infinite mind of God. He knows you better than you know yourself, you are never out of His sight, and you are never out of His thoughts.
Make no mistake about it, when God said in Hebrews 13:5 “Never will I forsake you, never will I abandon you.” – He meant it. You are never even out of His thoughts.
God Bless,
Oak Hill Baptist Church 