Psalm 92:5 - September 17, 2009

Ps 92:5 "How great are your works, O LORD, how profound your thoughts!" NIV

Part 2

The psalmist’s reflection does not cease at the measure of God’s works, He compels us further to consider the measure of God’s thoughts and any who will dare to truly reflect upon this reality must be silenced before the expanse of God’s understanding and the ocean of His meditations. The greatest scientific minds of every age have spent their lives seeking to unravel the tiniest portions of understanding the smallest fragments of information that God holds within His thoughts. They celebrate with great joy and triumph each new breakthrough of understanding as they are able to peek through a peep hole of insight into the treasure chest of God’s scientific glories. They boast as they are able to understand some new truth about how man is designed or the universe is structured and yet the God who made all things holds the completeness of the knowledge and insight that we only see a small sliver of.
Even this reality, the measure of the scientific information that is contained within the mind of God is so minute in contrast to the whole of His thoughts. God’s mind is equally full of the measure of His character, His devotion, His values system and His daily choices for the good of mankind and yet the profoundness of His thoughts does not end here, for of even greater importance than His understanding of His own creation are His thoughts of love and emotion that are extended towards each and every person that has ever been created. His word reflects briefly on this reality as it declares in the well known passage in John 3:16 that “God so loved the world that He gave His only son…” His heart is beating with a deep longing to be restored to intimate fellowship with every person who has
ever been created.
Truly how profound are His thoughts towards you! Man who is made in God’s image is seen throughout the pages of human history with a marvelous capacity for romance, so much so that the writer of Proverbs 30 speaks of this portrait of passion in Prov 30:18-19 by saying "There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand: 19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden.” Reflect on this reality for a moment, If man has this tremendous capacity for romance, How much more so God!? And if God is a romantic at heart, then who is it that He has directed His passions towards? Ephesians five clearly answers that question by contrasting again for us marital love and the love of God for us: Eph 5:28-32 “In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church- 30 for we are members of his body. 31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." 32 This is a profound mystery-but I am talking about Christ and the church.” Christ has been so moved by the mystery of passion for a bride that He has gone to great lengths to become one with us. Truly “how profound are God’s thoughts!?” Know today that you are loved by God and that His thoughts are directed towards you with a desire to make Himself known in the deep places of your heart!