Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Tues., 4/6/10 Devotion (Ps. 10:4b)

Today's encouragement comes from Psalm 10:4b, where we read these words:

" . . . God is in none of his thoughts."

Can you imagine living a life in which God is in none of one's thoughts? Actually, this is the existence of all the unregenerate. Sinners behave and think as if there was no God at all. Many people go through the motions down here with no saving or covenantal grace, and no serious notions regarding the divine (at all).

That is a sad state of affairs. Mankind is created in the image of God. We can only be fully and finally happy, as we are in communion with our Creator. This is not possible until the Holy Spirit brings us life, and we then believe in Jesus. When this happens, God is in *all* our thoughts.

[Puritan quote of the day: "If ever we mean to trust God, why not now?" --Richard Sibbes, in, "The Soul's Conflict with Itself"]