Too few letters

But I am poor and needy, yet the LORD thinketh upon me… (Psalm 40:17a).

It’s always a blessing to me when someone randomly sends me a text to say, “I’m thinking about you, just prayed for you!” I don’t know about you reading this but I usually picture the person sending the text and if it’s a friend I’ll think, this woman is supposed to be getting ready for an exam, how touching that she has set time aside to pray for me!

It’s even more amazing to me that I am always on God’s mind. Can you imagine how many things God thinks about, how many billions of people He has on His mind? Not just today, now, but also in the future – those who have not yet been born, but who He already knows before they are in their mothers' wombs. Those saints of His who are now in His presence. Those of us who look around and wonder what plans He possibly could have for us. Totally amazing, and yet He thinks of each one of us as though we were the only, only one on His mind. I’m imagining the miracles He organizes – person A will be at point B at time C, person D will leave destination E to get person F so they can leave location G for their meeting with person A at time H, event I will be happening to person A, but as soon as persons B and C arrive, event J will interrupt event I… and because of this, prayer K will bless person L across the world at time M… lol, I will soon mix myself up and run out of letters (evidence that a human being definitely can't orchestrate a miracle!)… but God is glorified in it all!

I can go on and on about this! Things like Nicodemus going to Jesus at night, the woman touching the hem of His garment, Lazarus dying while Jesus was away, Martha getting irritated that Mary and the Lord just “told stories” while she worked… I will never forget the snowstorm that interrupted my surgery… to many people it was just another day when they couldn’t go to work, but the night before, my sister and I prayed, and I was thinking, “God, are You really going to let them slit my neck?” And it snowed!!! I woke up that day and it was all white outside. All over New York and the East Coast! People remember that snowstorm to this day and they look at me and want to roll their eyes, thinking, “yeah, right” when I tell them I think it was for me. :) And honestly, sometimes my mind thinks, “yeah, right,” too, but then I remember the prayers and the peace and the miracle. My very own Valentine ’s Day gift.

One day I thought about how God’s eyes are constantly, unblinkingly on me, 24/7/365, and it really kind of spooked me! ALLLL the time, God is watching me! But this should be more of a comfort than a source of fear. In my afflictions, He is afflicted, in my joys, He rejoices, ahh… so amazing… Tonight, God is saying to me (and to you!), “I’m thinking about you.”