I am taking time each week to ask myself "Why we worship"
Omniscience of God
This simply means that God is
All-knowing
This includes the past, the present, and the future, and everything within these times.
It includes what has actually happened and will actually happen but it also includes what could have happened and what could happen in the future depending on how we exercise our free will.
So he knows what will happen and he knows what "could" happen.
There was never a time when God did not know everything and there never will be a time when God does not know everything.
Does this not give us a great security because we have a God who knows all things about us, about everyone else and about the universe.
Read through 1 John chapter 3 yourself to get the right context for this verse.
1 John chapter 3 is written by John to people he refers to as:
- Children of God v. 1 & 2
- Little children v. 7
- My brethren v. 13
- My little children v. 18
- Beloved v. 21
He is writing to people who are saved but perhaps have not had enough time or opportunity to have learnt many things about their heavenly Father.
Throughout the chapter he is assuring them that they are in God's family and are loved by himself and God.
Nowhere is he trying to scare them with the thought that God knows all things and will hold anything against them.
He is in fact stating that God knows all things so even when they do not think they are good enough God knows their salvation and the truth they are standing on.
How could He not be the rock for us to hold on to.
Do you agree?
