O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it. Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you. How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!” Psalm 139:1-12, 17

The Psalmist writes these words in Psalm 139, “How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! I try to count them – they are more than the sand; I come to the end – I am still with you.” Have you ever wondered what the thoughts of G-d must be like? I know that it is dangerous to put anthropomorphic images to G-d, like G-d actually has a right hand or long white beard, but it is truly weighty to consider the thoughts of G-d – if G-d thinks like us. Although G-d has said, “My ways are not your ways, my thoughts are not your thoughts” yet, if we had a chance to look into the mind of G-d, if we were to be given just a glimpse of the thoughts of G-d, what would we hear? A saying I have seen attributed to Albert Einstein is, “I only want to know the mind of God. Everything else is detail.” But what detail to consider – what thoughts to consume our insignificant minds…Amen?

Pastor Dave