Do you ever find yourself so busy that you can’t keep track of everything on your schedule? Have you ever said to yourself or to someone around you, “I just don’t have time to think about that right now!”?
Recently I considered everything in my schedule. Family stuff, work stuff, church stuff, time with friends, taking Annie and Emma to preschool and to dance class, doctor and dentist appointments, taking Palmer the Eskimo Dog to the groomer, and on and on it goes.
I wondered out loud, “How does God do it? How does He keep track of everything in the universe?” I just have my tiny postage stamp corner of the world to take care of. God rides herd on the whole planet. Not to mention 7 billion busy people just like me.”
Obviously, God is God and because He is the Ultimate Everything He doesn’t need time management tools to organize His week. God’s omniscience and omnipresence are too big for me to get my brain around. Just for a minute, let’s break it down to something less mind blowing.
Are you wearing a watch today? If you are, chances are it has a quartz crystal inside. Were we able to see it, we would find that the quartz crystal in our watch vibrates at a speed of approximately 8 billion times per second. That’s 8 billion with a capital “beyond our absolutely”, as my Grandmother would say.
There are approximately 7 billion people on planet earth. If God were only able to think as fast as the quartz crystal in your watch, He would be able to think about you and every other person on earth at the same time, every second of every minute of every hour of every day.
With time to spare.
Psalm 121 says that our God “does not sleep nor does He slumber”. He is literally thinking about you every second of every minute of every day. This week as you glance at your watch, remember God is thinking about you every second of every minute. Every day. Thoughts of love, grace, encouragement, forgiveness, kindness, hope and peace. God cares about the details of your life.
You might forget something this week. It happens. For your sake I hope it’s the shirts at the cleaners and not a birthday. Whatever you might forget, no worries. God will never forget about you.
“How precious are your thoughts toward me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!”
– Psalm 139:17
Todd A. Thompson – May 16, 2005