Posted on 10/15/2019 5:13:20 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good” (Proverbs 15:3).
This is a good verse that you want to show to every sinner that you can get to read that. They don’t think that God sees what is going on. God sees it all. The evil and the good, God knows it all. This describes God’s omniscience.
Omniscience is one of the three main attributes of God. Omnipresence and omnipotence are the other two. God is all-knowing, all-present, and all-powerful. God knows all things, and all three of these are found in one passage in Psalm 139. This is not to say that they are not found in others, but Psalm 139 is the main one.
“O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it” (Psalms 139:1-6).
God is all-knowledge. Did you ever think about this? God has never thought about anything. Did it occur to you that nothing has never occurred to God? God’s wisdom is perfect and immediate. He doesn’t need to think a situation out, for He already knows what to do. Man is somehow trying to create that with his computers. The difference between a computer and God is that with man’s programming it has to deal with “garbage in, garbage out.”
David describes God’s omnipotence in verse 14: “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.” God’s ways are marvelous, full of marvel.
Verses 7-10 speak of God’s omnipresence: “Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.”
Let’s read a chapter of Proverbs a day and see what God might have for us. As the Lord leads, share with us what God has shown you in a special way and by His grace let us build up a devotional repository. Let’s keep our knives and forks handy for some daily bread!
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