God's Thoughts About Me (Psalm 139) Series

The government just wanted to create work,

and so these roads just ran out into swampland and stopped.

And as the truth gradually dawned on them that they’d been put to work solely to provide them employment and as an excuse for feeding them, the men grew discouraged and unmotivated, they stopped singing.

One of them said, "Roads to nowhere are difficult to build."

That’s true.

If you can’t see a lasting purpose in what you’re doing,

then why do it?

Why waste your time?

Ephesians 2:10 "We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do."

God did advance planning on your life.

The verse we read earlier said that "Even in my mother’s womb, You were preparing me."

you knit me together in my mother’s womb. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

That’s one of the reasons why abortion’s wrong. God has numbered the days of every child, and even before that child is born. He has a purpose for that person. He planned them out in advance.

There’s a Christian Project called the Psalm 139 project,

that’s trying to put an ultrasound machine

in every Pregnancy Care Center,

because they believe if a woman can see how her baby is knit together in the womb,

she will definitely want to carry it to full term.

God has a purpose for every person,

And because God has a purpose for you, that means you are on special assignment from God.

God’s got some work in this world,

that can only be done by you.

When you understand that, it makes all the difference,

Lets go to the last section of this Psalm.

In the last section we see that

4. GOD IS CONTINUALLY LEADING ME.

Verses 17-24

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

19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men! 20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you? 22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. NIV

Its says that God’s thoughts about you

outnumber the grains of sand.

What that means is,

God is thinking about you all the time.

What is he thinking?

One of the things he’s thinking about

is in verse 23.

Its says he’s searching your heart,

searching your motives,

and your anxious thoughts, or worries,

and leading you in the right direction.

He’s constantly thinking about me,

so that he can constantly lead me,

so I can follow him and be blessed.

You see,

Every time I do the right thing, God is watching.

Every time, instead of sinning, I choose not to sin,

every time I resist a temptation, every time I stand up for the right thing no matter how small or insignificant,

God knows it, and sees my faithfulness to Him.