Who is on your mind?

According to information put out several years ago by the National Science Foundation, we think a thousand thoughts per hour. When we are writing we have twenty-five hundred thoughts every 90 minutes. The average person thinks about twelve thousand thoughts per day while a deeper thinker, puts forth fifty thousand thoughts daily. (Statics taken from Charlie Greer –Web Article 'What are you thinking'). All my searches gave me the same numbers, somewhere between 12,000 and 60,000 thoughts per day. That is somewhere between 1.4 and 7.2 thoughts per second. Amazing!!

My mind is flooded with thoughts everyday and many of those thoughts are about the people in my life. I think about my family, my friends, co-workers, and the list goes on. Who do you think abut the most? Your husband?, your wife?, sons or daughters? Close friends? Why are they on your mind so much? I am guessing you are like me, and it is because they are an important part of your life and you have a special love and concern for them.

Do you know who’s mind you are on?

I have been reading and meditating on Psalm 139. I have found it to be very comforting and validating at different times in my life. Two verses that have left me in awe this time are verses 17 & 18;
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How precious are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.” Wow, I am always on God’s mind. I thought 60,000 thoughts a day was a lot. I would not want to try and count grains of sand for even one minute.

 I cannot imagine that many thoughts. But God is God and He can have that many thoughts about me
and you, at the same time! Now read the end of verse 18 again,

”When I awake, I am still with you.” If
I am still with God when

I wake up, then I have been on His mind all through the night. God never sleeps and He never quits thinking about me! I am overwhelmed to think that the God of all creation is constantly thinking about me! There are no words that can adequately express the magnitude and depth of Gods’ thoughts about me
and you. I am sure His thoughts are not sub-conscious or fleeting either, but rather deliberate, conscious loving thoughts with purpose and meaning. I wish I could say that about all my thoughts towards Him. I do know that as I continue to read and meditate on these verses, my thoughts of God are becoming more conscious, more meaningful and more and more overwhelming. At the same time my thoughts of others are also taking on new meaning each day. But no matter what, I will never be able to comprehend the vastness of our omnipotent, omnipresent God who loves
us and thinks about
each of us, day and night. 

                                              Who is on your mind today?