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My Best Thought of 2023

The great Christian hymn Be Thou My Vision has this fantastic little line in it that I'm sure you're all familiar with: 'thou my best thought'. It sounds a bit awkward on it's own actually, but it's a wonderful aspiration for Christians - that the Lord, the one true living God himself would be the best thought that have. Being a preacher, I suppose I'm in the privileged position of having more dedicated opportunities that many to cultivate those 'best thoughts'. And, having been appointed the pastor of a local church this year, the preaching and the thoughts have ramped right up. So, as the year 2023 magnanimously bows out, what has been my best thought about God this year? Well, I think it has to be from Song of Songs chapter 4. Verse 9 says this (NASB): You have made my heart beat faster, my sister, my bride; You have made my heart beat faster with a single glance of your eyes... And the thought that this verse led me too, was the delectable notion