Light for the Journey
“THOUGHT”
THOUGHT – An invisible force of the mind that shapes our views, our words, our actions, and even our destinations. Every act of evil or kindness begins with a thought. Every destructive deed, every invention, and every masterpiece of art starts as a thought. Libraries are vast storehouses of recorded thoughts. The news delivers thoughts in the form of information. From the moment we wake up to the time we sleep, we are constantly thinking.
In all our thinking, let’s remember:
- God’s thoughts are not ours. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9)
- God declares His thoughts to us. “For behold, He who forms mountains, and creates the wind, who declares to man what his thought is, and makes the morning darkness, who treads the high places of the earth—The LORD God of hosts is His name.” (Amos 6:13)
- God’s thoughts toward us are many. “Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.” (Psalm 40:5) David stood in awe, asking, “LORD, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him?” (Psalm 144:3). The word mindful (Piel stem) expresses an intense and ongoing concern—God is not just aware of us; He continually thinks upon us with care and purpose.
With these thoughts in mind, ask yourself:
- Since God’s thoughts are so much greater than mine, do I take an interest in them? Do I trust His wisdom over my own?
- Since God declares His thoughts, am I listening? Do His thoughts shape my daily life?
- Since God has countless thoughts toward me, do I value them enough to seek them out? Am I concerned about what His thoughts are toward me?
But how can we know the thoughts of God? Paul answers:
"For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual." (1 Corinthians 2:11-13)
If we truly desire to know God's thoughts, we must go to where He has revealed them—the Scriptures. The Bible is not just a book of history or moral instruction; it is the mind of God made known to man. "The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever." (Psalm 119:160)
Are you searching His Word to know His thoughts?
