For Reading and Meditation:
Ezekiel 11:1-15
The final aspect of God's nature that we examine is His knowledge and wisdom. I link these two characteristics together because really it is almost impossible to consider one without considering the other. This is true of all God's attributes, but perhaps more so of the two we are now about to consider. The difference between knowledge and wisdom has been described like this: "Knowledge is what we know; wisdom is the right application of what we know." God, of course, knows everything; everything possible; everything actual. He is perfectly acquainted with every detail in the life of every being in heaven, in earth, and in hell. Daniel said of Him: "He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him" (Daniel 2:22). Nothing escapes His notice, nothing can be hidden from Him, and nothing can be forgotten by Him. I know that many Christians when referring to their conversion say that God has forgotten their sins, but strictly speaking that is not so. God never forgets anything. What He promises to do with our sins is "to remember [them] no more" (Jeremiah 31:34). There is a great difference between forgetting something and deciding not to remember it. Realising, as we do, that God knows everything ought to strengthen our faith and cause us to bow in adoration before Him. The hymnist put it effectively when he wrote: The knowledge of this life is small, The eye of faith is dim, But 'tis enough that God knows all And I shall be with Him.
O Father, how consoling it is to know that You know everything. Nothing ever escapes Your attention. This means I can relax, for what I don't know You know. And because You know it, then what I don't know can't hurt me. Amen.