The Beautiful Thoughts of God to Us

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What wonderful words that filled my ears over and over again today while I listened to the soul warming song by Bishop Will Murphy. Many things flowed through my mind as the song repeated itself because, I don’t know about you, there are times when a song just takes hold of you and doesn’t let you go!

This is exactly what happened today as I listened to this song. I’ll be the first to admit that there is such a wonderful experience to gain in worship. It takes me away from everything that seems to matter to a place that really matters – the place where I have that feeling that my soul is finally doing what it was created to do.

What greater way to worship God than through the warmth of His mercy. For me, the best way I could understand the thoughts of God was through His mercy. When I begin to imagine the things I’ve gotten myself entangled with, the things I have done, I can not begin to express how grateful I am to God for His mercy. I’m trying as hard as I can not to write the clichés you read when any one tries to describe worship! But have you ever thought of worship this way: Imagine you singing your favorite song of worship to God and you are really stuck within the words and you know in your heart that you are in that place where like me, you feel your soul is doing what it was really meant to do. Now Imagine that God is the one singing that same song to you. Oh my God! I imagine God, Almighty God singing to me that ‘My thoughts for you (me) are beautiful…’

When I try to think deep about those words, it opens me up to many things that draw my soul closer to my Merciful One in worship

First of all, I think of the fact that though His thoughts for me are beautiful, those thoughts came through pain. The excruciating pain that His Son went through on the cross was the most beautiful thought of God to mankind…to me.

Secondly, I imagine the troubles I have been through. While I feel like I’m in hell’s kitchen and there seem not to be an escape route out of the troubles and suddenly, I make it out. The ‘How Did I Make It Out’ part is the beautiful thought of God to me. He thought of me saying ‘The things I’ve thought about you are more than the troubles you are facing’ so He sees to it that I make it out of hell’s kitchen not for many reasons…but simply because His thoughts of me are beautiful.

Thirdly, and this is my favorite, I think of how much I have ruined my chances in life by the things I soiled my soul with – pornography, lies, deceit, envy, jealousy (these are my issues and yours may be more than mine) – and yet through it all, God extended His loving grace to me and said to me, calling me by name, that His thoughts for me are more beautiful than everything that I had been through.

Ah, my God! It’s almost as if God’s love is a die-hard kind of love – a three fold cord that is not easily broken! No matter how soiled your soul has been, He keeps coming back to wrap His loving arms around you – He has got ‘tough love’ for you. He loved your past, loved your future and gave you the assurance of both by loving your present – no matter what that present looks like. It doesn’t matter to Him if that present looks like an addicted porno-freak, or like an almost naked Red-light district worker, or like a junkie searching for his next fix, or like a lonely inmate locked up doing multiple life sentences, or like an abused young woman brought to the lowest ebbs of confusion and hate for the kind of hand life has dealt her, or like a single mother who has come to her wits end about raising her family, or like a father who feels he has used up all his second chances to get it right with his family and sons, or like a young minister trapped in religion, or like the CEO who wishes everything would just go away, or like the broken, battered, beaten generation of confused men and women that walk the streets of the world. It doesn’t matter what the picture looks like, I want you to say to yourself that ‘His thoughts of me are beautiful’

Still caught in the bliss of worship by this song, I joined the minstrel and sang:

That’s why I love You
That’s why I Praise You
And I worship You

I will worship You
Just for who You Are
Father and King
You are everything

That’s why I love You
Praise You and I worship You just for who You are
Father and King
You are everything