When we were at the ocean last month I was amazed at how fine the sand was. It brought to mind this verse in Psalms about the thoughts of God towards me His child, being more in number than the sand! What an amazing thought!
"How precious also are Your thoughts to me O God! How great is the sum of them!
"How precious also are Your thoughts to me O God! How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand..." Psalm 139:17-18
"Nothing can surpass in number the grains of sand which belt the main ocean and all the minor seas. The task of counting God's thoughts of love would be a never-ending one. If we should attempt the reckoning we must necessarily fail, for the infinite falls not within the line of our feeble intellect. Even could we count the sands on the sea-shore, we should not then be able to number God's thoughts, for they are "more in number than the sand." This is not the hyperbole of poetry, but the solid fact of inspired statement: God thinks upon us infinitely: there is a limit to the act of creation, but not to the might of divine love."
~C. H. Spurgeon
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