Mon., 4/6/20 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 we imagine an existence in which God is in none of one's thoughts? Ac-tually, this is the spiritual state of all unregenerate people, bar none. Sinners outside of Jesus behave and think as if there was no God at all. Many people go through the motions of existence down here on earth with no saving or covenantal grace in Christ; and with no serious thoughts regarding the Divine Being (at all).

That is a sad state of affairs. After all, mankind is created in the very image of God. Human beings are made to be fully and supremely happy, as we are in communion with our Creator. But, because of the Fall of man into sin, none of this is possible until the Holy Spirit applies the atonement of Jesus to our hearts. 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"]