“God’s Constant Presence”
By Dianne Prince
“How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me” (Psalm 139:17-18, NLT)!
Every now and then, we all go through a period of feeling like we are all alone. We allow our faith to be hijacked by our thoughts and we allow our peace to be disrupted by our emotions. Today’s scripture is a powerful reminder that we are never alone, and we can find comfort in knowing that God is always with us. His thoughts of us are always in His mind.
Imagine picking up a hand full of sand at the beach. It is illogical to count the grains of just one handful of sand. So, when we look around at all the sand on the beach and multiply that times all the sand in the world, God’s thoughts of us will outnumber all the grains of sand farther than we can see.
With our loved ones, if we know they are facing a difficult situation, thoughts of them will cross our minds off-and-on during the course of a given day. When we think of them, we will send up a quick prayer for God to handle their situation. We can stand in the gap for them through prayer, but we have no power to deliver them from their situation.
God, on the other hand, thinks of each of us, not off-and-on, but continuously and forever. The good news is this: not only is God always thinking about us; but, but He Has the power to do something about our plight. He has the power to fix our problems. And, He has the power lift our spirits above the weight of whatever is weighing us down.
When you feel like you are all alone, when it appears that nothing is going right and when you feel like you are struggling all by yourself, remember that you are always in the perfect view of God. He knows when your spirits are high, and He knows when your spirits are low. He knows when you have what you need, and he knows when your supply is low.
Be encouraged today because you are always in God’s thoughts, and you are always on His mind. Remember, His Word is the perfect “thinking of you” card from Him to You.
