GOD IS NOT IN ALL HIS THOUGHTS.
By I. G. Camp
How true are these words in the case of the wicked man as he rushes on from one scene of folly and pleasure to another! How truly may it be said of him that God is not in all his thoughts. And O how solemn the reflection that a created being should be thus unmindful of his Creator, who upholds him and will so soon call him to an account for all his folly, and for the manner in which he has used all these blessings. How different with the true child of God. How truly may it be said of him that God is in all his thoughts. When he rises in the morning he enters his closet and from a full soul gives him thanks that he has been preserved through the night, and pleads for grace whereby he may serve God acceptably through the day. And while he engages in the necessary duties of life, how often is his heart uplifted to God in praise and thanksgiving in remembrance of past favors and for every new expression of his love and favor toward him, and in pleading for heavenly wisdom to guide him in all his affairs, both spiritual and temporal, that whatever he does may be done to his glory. And especially in the hour of affliction how closely the heart of a christian cleaves to its God. And as he takes his Bible and for a few moments leaves the busy concerns of this life to hold communion with his God, how precious are these seasons, when he can read God's holy word and feel his glory shed upon every line; and that it is sweeter than honey and the honey comb, and then to draw near to God and feel his love so shed abroad in his heart as to beget within him an intense desire to be cleansed from all sin, and to be preserved blameless unto the coming of his Lord that he may be a fit subject of his heavenly kingdom. How truly is God in all his thoughts. "Whatever he engages in,
At home or far abroad,
His object is to honor
And to glorify his God."