What You Thinkin’ About?

C’mon now. You are thinking about something. You know you are.

Something’s stirring; something’s churning. Those wheels are cranking within your mind.

What is it? What you thinkin’ about?

Your financial state? Worry of an economy that stinks? A portfolio that is in the dumper? Prospects of a lay-off? The mounting pile of bills due?

Maybe it’s a challenge in your relationships? You can’t quite shake-off that recent bout with your spouse? Is it a child? Your teenager—perhaps. Incredulous, you say. Can a dad’s intelligence really slip that much by the nanosecond?

Or are you thinkin’ about how lonely you feel? No one seems to understand. Isn’t there someone for me? Anyone who would even care enough to ask?

God cares—at least about what you are thinkin’.

The Israelites had been exiled. Jerusalem was no more.

Rather down in the dumps, the author laments: “Just thinking of my troubles and my lonely wandering makes me miserable (Lamentations 3:19, CEV).

“I cannot find peace or remember happiness (3:17, CEV).”

The author says remembrances of such devastation are analogous to eating gravel or having your face rubbed in the dirt.

You’ve been there. You know how it feels. You might be there now?

But then, it happens. His mental pictures changes, alluding to a certain power in remembrance—at least in a focus upon the right sort of things.

“Then I remember something, (3:21, CEV),” he writes.

“But this I recall (3:21, AMP).”

“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness (3:22-23, NIV).”

And in a remembrance of the unchanging attributes of the Lord, he is filled with expectation and hope.

God cares— even about “what you thinkin’?”