God is omniscient, all knowing. It is a humbling thought to realize that God knows everything we have done and everything we will do, both good and bad. In Psalms, David tells us this about God,
"You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways." Psalm 139: 2-3
God is acquainted with, he knows, ALL our ways. He understands our thoughts. He knows when we get up in the morning. He understands our path, the way we are headed each and every day.
David also says in Psalm 44: 20-21 that God knows when we have turned away from Him. He knows when our hearts are turned against Him. He knows when we put other gods ahead of Him.
"If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god, Would not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart."
Even before we are born our Lord has known us. The prophet Jeremiah is told by God in Jeremiah 1: 5,
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
Jeremiah was ordained a prophet by God not just to Israel, but to the nations! God sanctified Jeremiah before his birth. Which means that he was set apart for God's special purpose. What purpose has God ordained for you and I? Are we fulfilling that purpose?
God is our Judge for He alone sees all of our deeds and knows their motivation. We can lie to ourselves about our motivations but we cannot lie to God.
“I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.” Jeremiah 17: 10 (NIV)
and
"All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord." Proverbs 16:2 (NIV)
We all have needs; food, shelter, clothing, and all of these needs are known by our Father. Just as a child trusts their parents to feed, clothe and shelter them, so we should also trust that our Father, who knows our needs even before we ask, will do the same and much more. Our anxiety comes from a lack of faith that God will be faithful to us.
“And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind. For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things." Luke 12: 29-30
God even knows exactly, to the day, how long we will live. Job tells us this in Job14: 5 (NIV),
"A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed."
God knows us so completely, so thoroughly that,
"... the very hairs of your head are all numbered." Matthew 10: 30
I often laugh when I read this verse. Our Father has to keep up with many fewer hairs on my head now than He used to!
The return of our Savior is known only to the Father,
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only." Matthew 24: 36
In Ephesians 1: 4-6 we learn that God has known from before the foundation of the world those whom He would call sons and daughters by adoption through Christ Jesus.
"just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved."
We can't hide from God. He knows everything about us. He knows the real me. He sees us when we try to hide our sin from the world and sees us when we do good things in secret out of love for Him. He knows our needs and provides for them. He knows, even now, the day we will draw our final breath on this earth and come face to face with Him in glory. He knows the plans He has for us, the paths He wants us to walk. He cares for us, as only the all loving Father that He is could. Praise be to God!
Dear Lord,
I do not know what will happen to me today —
I only know that nothing will happen that was not foreseen by you
and directed to my greater good from all eternity.
I adore your holy and unfathomable plans,
and submit to them with all my heart for love of you.
In your Son's name,
Amen
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