Thursday

Psalm 139:17 - December 24, 2009

Ps 139:17 "How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!"

Do you value the thoughts of God? David understood the nature of inspired thought. Except for those moments in his life when he lost focus and his eyes turned to earthly things David lived before God in a consistent life of worship. Moved by the Spirit of God, he wrote this amazing collection of Psalms that not only contain the memoirs of a rich life of worship, they equally contain a consistent flow of inspired, prophetic statements that point both to the coming Messiah and a diversity of end-time events that have shaped Christian thought and insight for thousands of years.

As a worshipper, David displays a clear understanding of the difference between his own human thought and those times when he is living in a God directed flow of revelatory thinking. He knew God’s searching hand. He knew divine direction. He understood what it was to be chastised by the Spirit of God and he embraced the correction and instruction of the prophetic vessels that God had placed strategically around him. He knew the ways of God as revealed in the Torah, the book of God’s laws and ways. And throughout his life He demonstrated a commitment to living by those words as an expression of God’s thoughts concerning Him. He not only accepted them as principle, but as personal! He embraced the word of the Lord as God’s thoughts concerning HIM!

In 2 Sam 7:20-22 he confesses to the Lord, "What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Sovereign LORD. 21 For the sake of your word and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made it known to your servant. 22 "How great you are, O Sovereign LORD!” And when tempted by his followers to kill King Saul and take the throne prematurely it is David’s love for the word that holds him steady before God as he accepts the season of waiting and refining that shaped him into who he is to become.

David lives his life cherishing the thoughts of God! This is the power of his life. The fact that David lets the word of God be his guide is reflected in the fruit of what he passes on to his son Solomon who wrote in Prov 6:23 “…these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life.” Throughout his life it was consistently recorded of David that he “inquired of the Lord.” He didn’t want to live out of his own wisdom or his own will. He understood that his life was an extension of God’s greater purposes in the earth and for the most part he consistently demonstrated a submission to the thoughts of God in his pursuit of personal and national direction.

May the Lord give each one of us this same revelation of our connectedness to God’s greater purpose and His desire to have relationship with us. As we esteem His thoughts, seeking them earnestly as David did, we can be confident that He will draw near and open our understanding to receive what has already been freely given. The scriptures declare in Col 2:2-3 that in Christ are “hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Paul also continues elsewhere in 1 Cor 2:16 by saying to us “…we have the mind of Christ.” These things are already ours and are available to those who will let the thoughts of God become their precious treasure! Esteem the thoughts of God as the essential ingredient to a successful and satisfied life and you will find that He is already waiting for you!

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