How good are you works, O Lord!
Your thoughts are very deep.
Psalm 92:5
How precious are your thoughts to me, O God!
How vast the sum of them!
Psalm 139:17
We can scarcely grasp the scope of God's thoughts. They are higher, deeper, more vast that anything we can imagine. Even more amazing is that his thoughts toward us are good, loving, and gracious. He is a loving Father who delights in his children.
His thoughts of us are deeper than the sea...deeper than the expanse of the universe. We might wonder how often he thinks of us. The Bible answers that question. His thoughts of us are more numerous that the grains of sand on the shores, more than the stars of the sky. We are constantly on his mind. Psalm 139:7 says, "Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?" There is no place we can go that his mind is not on us, that his eye fail to see, or his heart fails to love. His reach is always sufficient to grab us in his loving, protective embrace.
How precious is that? How very precious! When we try to imagine God's thoughts of us, his care and concern...his love, we can't grasp it when we look at the scope of the reaches of the universe. But there is one concrete image, one measurable way we can know how much he loves us.
The measure of God's love is from
one nail scarred hand to the other.
Several years ago a song from Casting Crowns, East to West, expressed the same thought in describing how far God throws away our sin when we are forgiven through Christ. The same is true of the measure of his love. Were it not for what Christ did for us on the cross of Calvary, we would not be able to comprehend or envision how much God loves us. It is through the gospel message we find our ability to relate to His love. When God gives us his Spirit we can see what Jesus did and then we know how very, very precious is his love toward us and how vast his thoughts of us surely must be.
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Design Details:
I love using my Praise Book to house some of my journaling for meaningful scripture. It allows more space than my Bible, yet still elevates scripture in beautiful ways. Here I used the Beach Blessings Printable for the design pieces and the Script Outline Alpha to capture the primary focus of the page.
I just added a little more texture and color to the page with a stencil and acrylic paint.
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How precious is His love for us! Beautiful page illustrating this, Diane!
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