God is the Greatest Thinker.

Thoughts of God..

Omniscient God who created everything that exists, is the ultimate thinker,designer and creator of every thing, the solar systems, galaxies, human, plant and animal world.He is not only the creator but holding everything by his infinite wisdom, providing, caring and sustainer for his ultimate glory. As I meditate upon the thoughts of God, my mind starts to spin, my finite mind cannot comprehend the depth,height or the expanse of awesome thoughts of God, then I opened my Bible to reflect of his thoughts. Writing this fully knowing my limitations and finiteness before the infinitely holy,powerful, wise and loving God, not that I already know or understand completely about the thoughts of God, but as the Holy Spirit revealed to me, here are few nuggets to chew...

God Thoughts are

1. Innumerable - Psalm 40:5, Psalm 139:18.

You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told. (Psalm40:5 - ESV). If I would count them, they are more than the sand. (Psalm 139:18- ESV).

Our God is the greatest thinker. God thoughts are innumerable, thoughts if you tell, no time or space could contain or would be enough to document them. So great are HIS thoughts. Even before the world and even you and me came into being, we existed in God's thought, meaning God thought about each and every being. His foreknowledge is beyond our comprehension, that kind of knowledge is too much for a finite mind to grapple with or contain. There are great thinkers in this world and shallow thinkers. Every man thinks, there is no man who does not think. We think because we are made in the image of the God who is a thinker. By creative thinking we show forth the fingerprints of our maker in our lives. People can think, but there is limit to what a man can think and apply, we may think many thoughts, but we do not have the power, resources or ability to bring those thoughts to fruition. But God who is omnipotent is able to bring his thought, into fruition (Rom 4:20,21). Psalmist David thinking on the thoughts of God, is filled with awe and says they are more than that can be told and he even says they are more than sand. Can the sand on the earth be ever counted? So many are the thoughts of God.

2. Precious: Psalm 139:17.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! (Psalm 139:17- ESV).

David is saying the thoughts are God are precious to him, because they are very precious thoughts. Thoughts of God are really precious, valuable, so to be cherished. Every believer in Christ has to learn to cherish the thoughts of God towards him like David. God's thought toward me are so precious, that He gave his son Christ Jesus (who is the Father delight).So precious to Him he did not go back to give that precious son for my sake. His thoughts are precious because He thought about me and you and cannot see to leave us in sin, so he sent his precious son. The precious son Christ Jesus had precious thoughts about me and you that he shed his precious blood to redeem me (I Pet 1:17-19). His thoughts are so precious when spoken became the precious promises (2 Pet. 1:4) through whom we become partakers of divine nature. His precious thoughts, precious blood of Jesus and precious promises are for us.


3. Deep. Psalm 92:5.

How great are your works, O LORD!Your thoughts are very deep! (Psalm 92:5 - ESV).

God's thoughts are very deep. There are deep thinkers and shallow thinkers.Deep thinking is the one which takes the thought to its very end, so there is no more avenue or untouched area any more to explore.Thoughts are deep as the person, depth of Godhead is great. In the depths of the earth are the Gold mines. In the depths of sea are pearls, diamonds and precious stones.So also the treasure of God are in his depth. Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgements and how inscrutable are his ways.(Rom. 11:33 -ESV). In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge (Col. 2:3 - ESV). So for a believer are the treasure of God's riches of wisdom and knowledge in the depth of his thought.
God says in Micah 4:12, "But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD;they do not understand his plan."Every believer should hear and know the thoughts of God for himself. Then the great question is How can I know thoughts of God?

But, as it is written,"What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,nor the heart of man imagined,what God has prepared for those who love him". these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts 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 understand the things freely given us by God. (I Cor. 2:9-12 - ESV).
Only the spirit of person can know his thoughts, no other person, but God has not left us helpless, the very moment we repent of our sin and believe in Christ Jesus as the propetitiation for our sin, we receive the gift of Holy Spirit to dwell in us forever (Acts 2:38,Eph . 1:13). Since we have the Spirit of God dwell within us, we can know the thoughts of God. Holy Spirit speaks I Cor 13:2,Acts 8:29,Acts 10:19. We can know the thoughts of God towards us the Holy Spirit reveals them to us.
Are you listening to Holy Spirit?

4. High. Isaiah 55:8,9.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares 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 - ESV).

God who dwells in high and loftly places (Isa. 57:15), thinks higher thoughts. Heaven is his throne, and earth his footstool. Height of thought is as high as the heavens above the earth, so great in height is his steadfast love(Ps. 103:11). The contrast of God's thoughts and mans thoughts, man thoughts are vanity and futile (Ps. 94:11) and God's thoughts are innumerable,precious,deep and high. Man is made out of the dust of the earth, a product of the earth, so is his thought and ways, earthly, lowly, small, not high, are his thoughts. There is a vast expanse of gap between the thoughts of God and man, the distance between the heaven and earth.

5. Peace and Future. Jeremiah 29:11.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. (Jer. 29:11 - ESV).
KJV translation replaces the word plans with thoughts, the thoughts of God are peaceful thoughts, to give rest and peace to his people. Man became restless in the Garden of Eden when he sinned, the restless soul find rest only in the savior Christ Jesus (Mt 11:28).
The promise of rest is in Christ alone. Soul that has not found Christ thirst, runs, longs for satisfaction, belonging and peace. Isreal did not have rest or peace while they sinned and are taken as captive to Babylon, so God is thinking thoughts of peace and promising peace and plan for future while Isreal is in captivity. God has thoughts about our deliverance from the enemy, from the captivity and to bring us to freedom that is only in God through Christ.
Come to Christ Jesus know his thoughts, confess your sins and enter the rest, peace that God has promised to man through Jesus and Jesus the Lord alone....

May the Lord use these thoughts for his glory and edification of his saints.

-Samson
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