Does God Think About Me?

Does God really think about us? If so, what are His thoughts about us like?

What God Thinks

What God thinks of us depends on our relationship with Him. In the first place, all of us were at one time or still are separated from God by our sins (Isaiah 59:2). Want to know what God thinks? Psalm 7:11 says “God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day. If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow” (Psalm 7:11-12) and “when I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me” (Duet 32:41). Jesus says “whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him” (John 3:36b). That is what God says He thinks about those who have not yet repented and believed in Christ, which is what the gospel is all about (Mark 1:15).

What God Thinks of Us

Everyone who has been born again or born from above by God (John 3:3, 7) has chosen to repent of their sins, meaning they voluntarily choose to turn away from and forsake their sins. Then they put their trust in the Savior. Once someone becomes a child of God, God thinks of them in radically different ways than He does unbelievers. For one thing, God loved us so much that He sent His one and only unique Son to die for us (John 3:16). Jesus blood is enough to take away the sins of all humanity but if someone on death row had a last minute reprieve and was pardoned by the governor, the pardon is only good if one receives it. The pardon is enough to save the condemned criminal but the governor will not force the prisoner to accept it. In our case, Jesus died in our place, took the wrath we deserved, and the sinless one died for the sinful ones. What does God think of you? Paul wrote that “God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom 5:8) and even “while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life” (Rom 5:10). God’s love is what He feels for you. God’s love is proactive. It is a verb and is action oriented. John 3:16 tells all of us what God thinks about us.

He Knows Us

The psalmist wrote “O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether” (Psalm 139:1-4). In the psalmist’s writing “How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them” (Psalm 139:17) he seems to show that God does have thoughts about us and surely some of those thoughts are very comprehensive. He must think about us since God is omniscient (all-knowing). He could not help but know since He is “acquainted with all” of our ways and “no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account” (Heb 4:13). God is continuously “discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart” (Heb 4:12) so how could He not know us? He does and in such finite details that even the number hairs on our heads is known (Luke 12:7).

Conclusion

The truth is “the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil” (1st Pet 3:12) however the unbeliever has God’s wrath on them right now (John 3:36b) but God doesn’t desire for any to perish apart from faith in Christ and wants all to repent (2nd Pet 3:9) however God will never force Himself on anyone or force someone against their will to believe in Christ but He says to all, come to Me so that you might have life and be spared from the coming wrath of God (John 3:18; Rev 21:8). What God thinks of you depends on whether you have embraced His Son as Lord and Savior yet so for all unbelievers, “The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth” (Psalm 34:16).

Article by Jack Wellman

Jack Wellman is Pastor of the Mulvane Brethren church in Mulvane Kansas. Jack is also the Senior Writer at What Christians Want To Know whose mission is to equip, encourage, and energize Christians and to address questions about the believer’s daily walk with God and the Bible. You can follow Jack on Google Plus or check out his book Teaching Children the Gospel available on Amazon.