God's Knowledge of His Creation
Genesis 1:8
We frequently hear of God's knowledge of His creation. It is variously described as complete, perfect, comprehensive, and other like terms. Those terms certainly can be used to describe God's knowledge of the world He created, but I think them inadequate to get at the fullness of the concept of God's knowledge.
It is most glorious to ponder the length and breadth of God's knowledge. to try and get a hand on just how much He knows is an awesome undertaking. There is so much to know! I often think of how impossible it is, in this day and age, for any one person to all there is to know. The rate at which our human knowledge is growing is astounding! Yet, we can easily understand that God knows all that is known by all of the humans combined! In fact, gloriously, He knows far more! He knows anything that man will ever discover. Should man ever discover a way to cure cancer, or aids, it will be the discovery of knowledge that God already knew. We can never outstrip God.
It is also interesting to think of the depth in which God God's knows. He knows all about everything. He knows each thing fully and completely. There is no partial knowledge with God. He does not grow in His understanding and knowing, as some blasphemously suggest today. God knows each item of information to the fullest extent it can be known! After all, doesn't the Scripture say that God knows how many hairs are on our heads? That is exhaustive knowledge.
Most wonderful, to me, is to think about the "how" of God's knowledge. Does God know in the same way we know? Does He acquire knowledge? Does He investigate and study and come to know something He hadn't known before? The Scriptures emphatically say no! God knows because He is the Creator! He knows because it was He who designed the world and all that is in it! His exhaustive knowledge is the knowledge of the designer, not of the "experiencer".
What a wonder to behold! No wonder the world always functions according to God's plan and purpose! It was He who brought it into being and it was He who set the workings of the natural universe into motion to begin with. It was not a haphazard, experimental kind of a thing, no! Rather, it was a deliberate and completely considered action on God's part. He knew what He was doing and he deliberately set out to accomplish what He wished!
I'm glad I live in such a creation. I am glad that the physical world will always function the way god intended it to function. I'm glad that it will never fail or destroy itself. It gives a real sense of peace and security to know that God Himself designed the world and that it will always perform up to the specifications of the designer!
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