Does
God ever think about YOU--meaning you singular as an individual?
Why should He? Who are you that the eternal
God Creator of heaven and earth and all that therein is should pay
attention and be concerned about you—YOU as an individual,
singular, one person in all this vast universe and well-populated
world?
Good question, don’t you agree! Who art
thou? Who am I that God should be concerned about me?
But He is. That’s what MANY scriptures tell us. You
must find the answer in His character, in His grace, not in our
alleged goodness or assumed importance.
But we don’t get lost in the vastness of the
universe and the crowded cities of this world because God is
absolutely infinite! so He has “unlimited time” for each
one of us as an individual. And, just as important, He cares
for you. “Casting all your care on Him for He
careth for you.” He does so with a double meaning—caring
about and caring for, as in Psalm 23.
We are not alone! People ask me sometimes if
it’s difficult for me to “live alone” after being married for
54 years to such a wonderful wife. And I tell them,
“I’m never alone.” And that is literally true. And
I know it and I feel it. And a lot of the time I just talk
aloud to the Lord –and sometimes double check to be sure no
one else is listening. (^-^) “
But I am poor and needy; yet
the Lord thinketh upon me: thou
art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalm 40.17 but the
Lord takes thought for me. esv
The Hebrew word translated thinketh is also interesting. It’s Strong’s #2803 The root is interpenetrate or weave. Interpenetrate reminds you of Heb. 4.13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. esv And the second root weave. takes us to Philippians 1.6 “He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” niv But also listen to the various synonyms given in the lexicon: think, regard, value, make account of, conceive, consider, esteem, find out, forecast, imagine, impute, purpose, regard.
The Hebrew word translated thinketh is also interesting. It’s Strong’s #2803 The root is interpenetrate or weave. Interpenetrate reminds you of Heb. 4.13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. esv And the second root weave. takes us to Philippians 1.6 “He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” niv But also listen to the various synonyms given in the lexicon: think, regard, value, make account of, conceive, consider, esteem, find out, forecast, imagine, impute, purpose, regard.
God thinks about us and His thoughts are much
deeper and much more thorough and penetrating and purposeful than
ours. “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.” Isa.
55.8-9 esv
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the
Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a
hope. Jer. 29.11 esv