A True Know-It-All

"Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or as His counselor has informed Him?" Isaiah 40:13

If your grade school was anything like mind, you had a "know-it-all" in your class. On any subject, Mister or Miss Know-it-all could expound at length. Nothing made you madder than to see some kid who acted like he new everything, because you knew he didn't know half of it.

There's only one who knows it all in the universe, and it isn't that kid. It is the great God whose perfections we have been studying. One of the attributes of our God is His omniscience, a word made up of two words; omni, which means all, and science, which has to do with knowledge.

So when we talk about the omniscience of God, we are referring to His "all-knowingness,' what God knows. This is one of a trilogy of God's "omni" attributes we will consider the next few days. A simple definition is that god's omniscience refers to His perfect knowledge of all things both actual and potential.

Let's make sure we get it down straight. The omniscience of god means that there is absolutely nothing He doesn't know - that there is no information system or set of data that exists anywhere outside of God's knowledge - nothing. He depends on no one outside of Himself for any knowledge about anything.

I like the story of the wealthy grandfather who was getting up in age. He was going deaf, but he went to the doctor and was fitted with a unique hearing aid. It not only overcame the old man's deafness, but it allowed him to hear perfectly. When he went back to the doctor for a checkup, the doctor commented, "Well, your family must be extremely happy to know that you can now hear."

The grandfather said, "No, I haven't told them about my hearing aid. I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I've already changed my will twice."

When folk don't think you know, it will greatly affect what they say and do! Are you living in light of the fact that God hears and sees everything you say and do? I hope so, because He does.

Think About It: God knows you intimately, every cell in your body, and He loves you!

By Tony Evans, taken from "Time To Get Serious"