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How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake, I am still with you. (Psalm 139:17-18) 

     

      Last week our choir sang a song that included dynamics. There were places we were supposed to sing more loudly and places we were supposed to sing more quietly. All songs have them, even if they're not written in the music. They're in our sentences when we talk, too. It seems to me that this song has been building to the forte that is right here.  This seems to me to be the exuberant "Yay, God!" that David has been building to.

      What excited him more than God's omnipotence, His omniscience and His omnipresence? God's thoughts. Those big "alls" were praiseworthy. They revealed what God is, namely, God. His innumerable thoughts  - those revealed who God is, namely, God. The two are not the same, just as a person is not the same as you, even though you are a person.  It was God's personhood that impressed David. Their relationship was such that he was excited about who God is.

        It seems to me that when we pray, especially in public, much of what we say to God has to do with what He is and what He does. That's all very appropriate and right now, most of my prayers are intercession. There's nothing wrong with that. How often do we pray to talk to God about what He thinks about ...whatever? Johannes Kepler described science as "thinking God's thoughts after Him." Perhaps some time in the next week you might take on the challenge of talking to God about something. You could start out "A penny for Your thoughts...." You'll get a huge bargain. You might have a topic in mind, "What do You think about _______?"

       Just as an added bit of trivia, someone with too much time on his hands calculated that there are approximately 5 sextillion (5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) grains of sand on the beaches of the world - just the beaches. God has shared a few of His thoughts in His Word, and I know that the rest are consistent with what You'll find in Scripture. I suspect that He'd be happy to share one or two with you. I know from experience, it's worth taking the time to listen.        

 

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Birthday of Charles Ludwig Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Mozart and Jerome Kern
Lewis Carroll's  Jabberwocky
Mozart Concerto
Kern Medley



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