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Pastor Chris White says to all of you: HELLO MY FRIENDS. May the Lord bless you today. HOLA MIS AMIGOS. Que el Señor los bendiga.
Thoughts
are the most private parts of our human experience. No one else can know our
thoughts unless we communicate them, so we tend to imagine that anything we
think is safe, as long as it stays in our minds. But there is one Person who
always knows what we are thinking; God knows everything about us, and He also
knows our thoughts.
God knows our thoughts no matter who or where we are. Psalm 139 begins
this way: “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 afar” (verses 1–2). God
searches the hearts and minds of people, seeking those whose hearts are turned
toward Him (Jeremiah 12:3; 1 Chronicles 29:17; Acts 15:8). Two
of the Ten Commandments deal with our thoughts. The first
commandment is
to have no other gods before the Lord (Exodus 20:3). That is a heart matter. The tenth commandment warns us not to covet what others have (Exodus 20:17). Coveting is also a sin of our thoughts. When Jesus walked
the earth, He knew people’s thoughts and answered before they even verbalized
their questions (Matthew 9:4; 12:25; Luke 9:47; 11:17). In
this way, Jesus exhibited the divine trait of omniscience.
It can be intimidating to realize that God knows our thoughts. He knows the
angry thoughts, lustful thoughts, vengeful ideas, secret greed, and hidden
coveting. God also knows about those secret longings, hopeful desires, and
private dreams. And He understands. First John 3:20 assures us that “if our hearts condemn us, we know that
God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.” Sometimes we are
harder on ourselves than God is. He knows we are frail humans made from dirt
and born with a sin nature (Psalm 103:14).
If we have given our lives to Christ, then we should find comfort in
remembering that our loving Father knows us better than we know ourselves. God
knows our desire to please Him (Psalm 37:23), even though we stumble at it. Within that loving
relationship, we have confidence to cry, “Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting” (Psalm 139:23–24). We don’t have to be afraid of being vulnerable to our
Creator. And there’s no sense in trying to hide things from Him. Whatever the
issue, He already knows about it and wants us to feel safe enough to confess
our thoughts to Him (Psalm 50:15; 91:15; 1 John 5:14–15). God knows our thoughts, and He helps us to know ourselves
better when we talk them over with Him.
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