Psalms 139:17-18 “How precious are your thoughts about me, O God! They are innumerable! I can’t even count them they outnumber the grains of sand!”
Mathematicians at the University of Hawaii estimated that there are 7,500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on the world’s beaches.
If you lived to be 80 years old, that would mean God thinks about you 3 billion times a second! A SECOND! That’s beyond human comprehension. And the verse we read says His thoughts outnumber the grains of sand. So His thoughts for us outnumber 3 billion a second! That is amazing!
We all know that God loves us. We all know the song, “Jesus loves me this I know”. But how many of us really know or have a glimpse of just how much He loves us? He really cares for us. His love is so great, it passes knowledge.
He knows the number of hairs on our head. (Luke 12:7) He calls us by name! (John 10:3) Why did He say this in the Bible? Because He wants us to know how intimately He knows us and desires to have a close relationship with us.
One of the things I love most about God is how personally He loves us and the amazing ways He uses to show us. Sometimes He can use one word that will almost take our breath away with how close He is and that He’s interested in the tiniest detail of every part of our lives.
Just think about how close of the relationship Jesus had with His Heavenly Father. They were one. Here’s something even more amazing. God loves us as much as He loves Jesus. He wants to be as close to you as how close He is to Jesus.
His thoughts about us aren’t angry thoughts or about how bad we are. No! His thoughts toward us are LOVE.
HEBREWS 13:5 AMP for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor [c]give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!]
Would you die for someone? Who would you give your life for? It seems normal to die for someone who loves you and is nice to you. How about someone who can’t stand you and treats you badly? Jesus died for people who ignored, rejected, and hated Him. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:7) Jesus chose to love us and to die for us. His love for us goes beyond human understanding. He showed us what love is all about. GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE. (John 3:16)
Love isn’t a feeling. It’s an action and a choice.
Jesus focused and knew that when He died for us, we could be closer to Him than ever before. God could now live in us and we in Him. Now that’s true love!
For 6 hours Jesus hung on the cross, thinking of one thing. YOU! (Hebrews 12) Even if you were the only person on the planet, God still would have sent His Son to die for you.
This is what everyone in this world is longing for. They are desperately looking for real love in the wrong places. Money, people, fame, number of Facebook friends.
JEREMIAH 29:11-15 I’ll show up and take care of you as I promised and bring you back home. I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.12 “When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I’ll listen.13-14 “When you come looking for me, you’ll find me. “Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I’ll make sure you won’t be disappointed.”
He wants to be our everything., all we want and all we need. Why wouldn’t we want Him to be when He’s shown us such love?
GOD LOVES YOU
THERE IS NO HUMAN LOVE THAT COMPARES TO DIVINE LOVE
HE WANTS TO FORGIVE YOU AND HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH YOU
IT DOESN’T MAKE A DIFFERENCE HOW FAR YOU’VE RUN FROM HIM
HE SEES YOU, HE LOVES YOU
EVERY SECOND OF YOUR LIFE IS WATCHED BY GOD
HE’S LISTENING, HE UNDERSTANDS
DON’T EVER FORGET THAT GOD LOVES YOU
HE LOVES YOU WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE. FOREVER! AND HE HAS A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE.
