p. 1 | God’s Thoughts Toward His People

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 12, 1890

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 16, No. 18.

God’s Thoughts Toward His People

The psalmist said: "But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me." This is a consoling thought; and so again we read: "How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand." Ps. 139:17, 18. What a wonder that the God of the universe, the Creator of heaven and earth, should bestow thoughts innumerable upon those who, in comparison with him, are less than nothing, and vanity! But the crowning piece is the assurance of the Lord himself to ancient Israel, which applies no less to his people to-day: "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." Jer. 29:11. The Christian who meditates upon this truth until he realizes it, makes God's thoughts his own, and so can say, "In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul." Ps. 94:19.