Enjoying God's Countless Thoughts About You - Psalm 139:17-24 Series

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Psalm 139:1 O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord. 5 You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, behold, you! 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you. 19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men! 20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord, and abhor those who rise up against you? 22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Introduction

We have spent the last several weeks studying Psalm 139 and marveling at one amazing attribute of God after another. We left off last week in verse 16, where David says all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. God is the Author and Architect of our lives.

Mastermind

As soon as David mentions God's book, he starts thinking about why God wrote what He wrote in that book. If God wrote about you it means He was thinking about you. So David starts thinking about the thoughts of his Maker.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.

We can add this to the list of our attributes of God in this psalm: God the Mastermind. The God of an infinitely perfect mind generating infinitely perfect thoughts. And if you love God, those thoughts are precious to you.

Value

Precious means uniquely valuable.

Unique

God's thoughts are like precious stones - precious because they are rare. That is not to say they are few in number. Verse 18 says the number of them is vast beyond counting. But they are rare in the sense that there is nothing else like them. Nowhere can you find thoughts that are the quality of God's thoughts. The highest and greatest thoughts from angels around the throne of God in heaven are no doubt magnificent and profound and wonderful, but they are nothing like the thoughts of God. No mind in existence comes up with thoughts like the thoughts of God. That is why we preach God's Word instead of our own opinions and ideas. Our method of ministry here at Agape is to apply the Word of God to the hearts of men and women. Why? Because what people need is not our thoughts, but God's thoughts. The best thing we could ever aspire to is to think God's thoughts after Him.

The Cause of All Good Things

God's thoughts are precious to us because they are unique, and also because it is from the thoughts of God that all good things spring. In order for anything good to ever happen, God has to be thinking it. No good thing can ever happen unless it is going through the mind of God. And if God stops thinking it, it will stop happening. So we love God's thoughts because they are the point of origin of every good thing.