Evening
Time: 11:32 PM PST
"How precious also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God." --Psalm 139:17
Divine omniscience affords no comfort to the ungodly mind, but to the child
of God it overflows with consolation. God is always thinking upon us, never
turns aside His mind from us, has us always before His eyes; and this is
precisely as we would have it, for it would be dreadful to exist for a moment
beyond the observation of our heavenly Father. His thoughts are always tender,
loving, wise, prudent, far-reaching, and they bring to us countless benefits:
hence it is a choice delight to remember them. The Lord always did think upon
His people: hence their election and the covenant of grace by which their
salvation is secured; He always will think upon them: hence their final
perseverance by which they shall be brought safely to their final rest. In all
our wanderings the watchful glance of the Eternal Watcher is evermore fixed upon
us--we never roam beyond the Shepherd's eye. In our sorrows He observes us
incessantly, and not a pang escapes Him; in our toils He marks all our
weariness, and writes in His book all the struggles of His faithful ones. These
thoughts of the Lord encompass us in all our paths, and penetrate the innermost
region of our being. Not a nerve or tissue, valve or vessel, of our bodily
organization is uncared for; all the littles of our little world are thought
upon by the great God.
Dear reader, is this precious to you? then hold to it. Never be led astray by
those philosophic fools who preach up an impersonal God, and talk of
self-existent, self-governing matter. The Lord liveth and thinketh upon us, this
is a truth far too precious for us to be lightly robbed of it. The notice of a
nobleman is valued so highly that he who has it counts his fortune made; but
what is it to be thought of by the King of kings! If the Lord thinketh upon us,
all is well, and we may rejoice evermore.