It’s going to be a hot one today. Since my retirement two months ago, I’ve been trying to find what my “new normal” is. After almost two decades with work as a daily focus, finding my footing has been an interesting adventure.
Walking. Moving. Getting out in the fresh air. I decided that will be an important part of my routine as I move forward. So, I headed out early before the killer temperatures kicked in.
I took a new route, one that led me along streets and paths I hadn’t been down before. Walking is always a time for thought. Some would call it meditation. This day was no different.
I have wanted to write on the intelligence and knowledge of God for some time--particularly since He gave me an infinitesimal sense and awareness of that facet of Himself. At the time, my mind quickly reached maximum capacity as I tried to grasp the most elementary of facts. I certainly had no words to begin to describe what I had been shown.
God’s intelligence and knowledge isn’t spoken of much. In the secular world, He has been “dumbed” down to the point of non-existence, a fairy tale for the naïve’ and the simple-minded. Those in the church or religious realm often speak of His omniscience. But that is a very broad-brush stroke without any real substance. “Of course, He knows everything. He’s God.”
Oh, My. Yes. He is God.
The day was warming quickly, and I still had a ways to go until I was home. Before I sit down to write, I am often given a basic topic along with a starting point. I knew I would be sharing my thoughts about this facet of God in the most rudimentary manner.
Here I go, and here it is.
Consider a single blade of grass. God knows everything there is to know about that one piece of vegetation growing in your front yard. He knows its molecular makeup, when it came into existence, its needs, even when it was last mowed—everything.
Now, multiply that one grass blade by every iota of matter that exists in this world and the universe beyond, all that is seen and unseen. God knows it all, from the depths of the earth to the heights of the sky.
He knows it all because He created it all. There is no way to measure His knowledge and intelligence, but mankind need only look at Creation to see it manifest.
Is God worthy of our respect? Yes, He is. Are the people of this world giving Him any? Some are, but many are not.
When
God created the universe and all that is in it, He had a plan in mind. His plan
was to include humankind in His world. The choice is ours, not His.
He will not be mocked. He will not be ridiculed and made a fool of.
Who on this earth or in this universe is His equal?
Consider a single blade of grass.
…He cares for you
I Peter 5:7 ISV