Thou my best thought ...

What are you thinking? How many times have you been asked this question? On any given day my wife will ask me this at lease once ; often one of my daughters will, too. It seems to be a universal question we are all presented by the people around us. However, the real question might be: do you really want to know what I am thinking? Or maybe, is it safe fore me to tell you want I am thinking? It's no secret we all have thoughts we do not want to share with others.

Often during my day I ponder good thoughts of family, friends, events, places I have visited. However, what about my best thought, how often do I focus on it? In my favorite hymn these words are found, "Thou my best thought by day and by night ...". Many thoughts can fill my head but it is when I think of my Savior I find my greatest comfort. Christ who willingly gave himself for me, who died for my sins and made available the grace and mercy of God to me, this is my best thought. On this thought I will meditate and find peace during my busiest days and most restless nights. It is when I lose myself in the anxieties of the day, when I lose my focus on my best thought, it is then that I struggle to find sanity in a very confusing world.

The Psalmist says this: By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is within me - a prayer to the God of my life." Psalm 42:2  So may I never forget my best thought, may I never fail to focus on all he has brought into my life, the difficult as well as the easy.  Day or Night, may I continue to acknowledge his love with awe and thankfulness and never fail to hear his song within me. 

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