God thinking of you constantly is another heartwarming topic during this month of the Sacred Heart.

A Loved One Fills the Mind

A lover can identify with the line of a love song: “You were always on my mind.” The beloved becomes an obsession. Day and night the lover’s mind is flooded with thoughts of the object of affection. Sometimes these are deliberate; other times they are spontaneous. The loved one is the first thought on awaking and the last thought before succumbing to sleep.

Certain sights trigger thoughts of the one loved, for example, a person with a similar hairdo, a car that resembles their, or a cherished gift from the beloved.

The lover indulges in daydreams about their one and only. They recall with joy all their encounters, which are seared into their memory. Like binge-watching television shows, they replay these meetings and weigh each word.

You Are Never Out of God’s Mind

A stained-glass window in one church depicted the eye of God in a triangle. A little boy told his teacher that he didn’t like this picture. It scared him. She wisely explained, “That eye doesn’t mean that God is watching to catch you doing something wrong. No. It means that God loves you so much that he can’t take his eyes off you.”

God’s intellect is powerful beyond anything you can imagine. Whereas humans are capable of holding only one thought at a time, God is able to entertain innumerable thoughts simultaneously. God’s love is also unfathomable, without measure. These two truths imply that the Almighty One constantly thinks about you, his beloved. You are always the object of God’s loving concern.

Jesus’s Teaching on This

Jesus taught that God the Father watches over the flowers and the sparrows. He knows whenever a sparrow falls from the sky. God even knows how many hairs are on your head. For sure, then, he is thinking about you, his special creation.

At this very moment God is well aware of you. If he weren’t, you would vanish into oblivion. In fact, you were on God’s mind from all eternity. In Scripture, our Lord says, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” (Jeremiah 1:5). The holy One engineered the vast, magnificent universe, which some astronomers claim comprises at least two trillion galaxies! But God also conceived of you, a one-of-a-kind human being, and decided to create you.

God Was Thinking of You Before You Existed

God chose the years your life would span, the places you would call home, your family members, the shape and features of your body, and your talents and skills. Your Creator has thoughtfully arranged your days: “Surely I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope” (Jeremiah 29:11). Moreover, God had a dream for you: the ideal person he created you to be.

Your whole life—from the first second of your existence to your final breath—is in God’s mind like a flash. Each aspect of your life and all your circumstances are in his purview. That is why when the psalmist was distressed, he could pray, “You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your record?” (Psalm 56:8). Thoughts about you are set in God’s mind indelibly.

God Is Thinking of You at All Times

Your divine Lover is thinking about you when you delight in marvels of earth and sky, when you are sick and suffering, when you grieve for a loved one, when you attain a goal, when you struggle with temptations, and when you wrestle with a problem. God is thinking about you when you are happy and laughing, when you are filled with fear and anxiety, when you are praised, and when you are criticized. He is fully aware of you when you perform an act of charity . . . and when you fail to love.

God professes in lyrical poetry that he will be mindful of you forever:

Can a woman forget her nursing child,

    or show no compassion for the child of her  womb?

   Even these may forget,

    yet I will not forget you.     (Isaiah 49:15)

No matter how far you may stray from God, this faithful Lover will never blot you from his mind. At times you need help most, you can be certain that God is aware of it. As the psalmist said, “I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me” (Psalm 40:17).

In Scripture God tells you, “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Psalm 55:9). How consoling to know that some of those divine high thoughts are of you!

A Love Song

“More” was sung at my sister’s wedding. Some of the lines could well be God’s words to you.

                                                                 

• How does it make you feel to know that God thinks of you without ceasing?

• At what times in your life are you pleased that God is aware of you?

• How can you stay mindful of God?