How Precious are Your Thoughts to Me!
For any of us who really struggle with self-esteem (ADDers are particularly susceptible bc we don't meet the world's expectations, but let's be honest, who doesn't struggle some?)... God gave us Psalm 139, to remind us who we are!
Oh Lord, You have searched me and know me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path... And are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, but... You know it altogether. You have hedged me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it. Where can I go from Your Spirit? ... If I take the wings of the morning... Even there Your hand shall lead me... If I say, "Surely the darkness shall fall on me," even the night shall be light about me; indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, but the night shines as the day...
For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made... And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.
How precious are Your thoughts toward me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand...
Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
Take my heart and make it clean!
Open up my eyes to the things unseen!
Show me how to love like You have loved me!
Break my heart for what breaks Yours -
Everything I am for Your kingdom's cause!
As I walk from earth into eternity!