Thoughts

I was reading through the Psalms recently and I started reading Psalm 10 just now and this verse really hit me:

"In his pride the wicked does not see him. In all his thoughts there is no room for God." Psalm 10:4

I was really struck by the second part of this verse, "In all his thoughts there is no room for God." This really made me think about what I think about. It's sobering to ask yourself, is there room in your thoughts for God? I think about the things that I spend a lot of time thinking about which aren't even worthy of the time that I do spend thinking about them because in the scheme of things they don't really matter!

I want my thoughts to be constantly about God. I don't want there to be no room for Him. I don't want to be the wicked man whose pride doesn't see the Lord. I want to devote my life to thinking about and spending time with God because He's worth it! He's worth every thought. And the time spent thinking of Him, about Him, meditating on who He is, wont be in vain! Dwelling on those things will bring fruit and knowledge and wisdom and peace and revelation!

It's easy to give other things a place of higher honor in our thoughts than God. It's hard sometimes to even recognize that we're doing it! Unfortunately that's when those things become idols. That's why it's so important to constantly be asking God to search our hearts and our minds so that He can reveal to us when we've strayed from Him.

I'd encourage you to ask the question, "is there room in my thoughts for God?" and allow the Lord to reveal those things, if they're there, that take up most of the space in your thoughts and steal away time with Him.