JULY 15
Psalm 139:6, “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.”
Until the category was retired, the Guinness Book of World Records listed Marilyn vos Savant as having the highest recorded IQ—an astonishing 228. For perspective, the average IQ is around 100. Humans possess varying degrees of intelligence and expertise, but no one knows everything. A humble and honest self-assessment should lead us to this sobering truth: we don’t know as much as we think we do.
But God does. Theologians call this omniscience—God’s complete and perfect knowledge of all things. A.W. Tozer captured it powerfully: “God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, … all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven, and hell.”
King David reflected on this reality in deeply personal terms. In Psalm 139, he marveled that God knew everything about him—his actions, his thoughts, even his words before he spoke them. God surrounded him, searched his heart, and knew his path. David’s response? “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it” (Psalm 139:6). And yet—the God who knows all about us still loves us. That’s the staggering truth of the gospel.
One of my most treasured books is a worn, dog-eared copy of Tozer’s The Knowledge of the Holy. It’s full of highlights, but only one paragraph is marked in pink: “And to us who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope that is set before us in the gospel, how unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely… since He knew us utterly before we knew Him and called us in full knowledge of everything that was against us.”
That paragraph still stirs me. It captures the heart of the gospel: The God who knows me best, loves me most. And nothing—nothing—can separate me from that love (Romans 8:33–39).
“There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me—so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself.” — J. I. Packer, Knowing God
APPLICATION QUESTIONS: How does knowing that God sees and knows everything about you—past, present, and future—affect your view of His grace and love? Are there areas in your life where you’re still trying to “hide” from God? What would it look like to bring those into the light of His loving knowledge?
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