His Mind is on You
“and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:30)
King David is believed to be the author of Psalm 1. He followed the example of holy men and meditated on God’s Torah day and night. Do you think he believed that God paid attention to him? Yes. In fact, the psalmist was in awe of God’s thoughts toward him.
What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him? (Psalm 8:4)
What is the nature of God’s thoughts? They are good, and there are plenty of them. The number of them towards each of us is staggering. Think of counting the sand in the desert…
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You. (Psalm 139:17-18)
If the vast quantity of His thoughts are any indication, the Creator is a Father-Friend who is really concerned about each of us. In addition, Your Father loves you so much that He has made plans for you.
but just as it is written, “THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM.” (1 Corinthians 2:9)
He is adjusting all of creation and every instance of everything-that-ever-happened for your benefit.
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. (Romans 8:28)
God is omniscient and God is wise. The Scriptures are clear: God knows. God thinks. God concentrates.
How great are Your works, O LORD! Your thoughts are very deep. (Psalm 92:5)
His sense of knowing, use of imagination and focus is akin to ours. We are the image of God. Of course, (!) the Creator is on a whole other plane of existence. We are like a selfie on a cell phone compared to the subject of the photo. Our love for Him mirrors His love for us.
We are not being asked to concentrate upon Him while His attention wanders far from us. No, the text is clear:
You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. (Psalm 139:3)
He loves us so much that He is concentrating upon us. He loves us with all His mind.
This is the Greatest Commandment:
“and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:30)
The Greatest Command is a call to corresponding love.
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Also, David wrote a book about God’s love for the Jewish People called, For the Sake of the Fathers
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