The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
"Thou Knowest"
"Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for Me?" (Jeremiah 32:27).
God's rhetorical question regarding His capabilities suggests a characteristic only He possesses, namely, perfect self-knowledge. Our Lord knows who He is and what He can do, a wondrous awareness considering His infinite being and ability. Conversely, created beings, dependent and finite in their being and doing, cannot begin to fully understand ourselves. This reveals a vast gulf between the Creator and those who exist by His determination and power. He knows Himself and ourselves perfectly. We do not know Him or ourselves to any degree that approaches complete understanding.
"His greatness is unsearchable" (Psalm 145:3).
"O Lord, Thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off" (Psalm 139:1-2).
"If any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know" (I Corinthians 8:2)
Our first response to this truth should result in a flight of faith to our Lord. We flee to Him because knowledge and understanding are so vital to our existence as conscious beings. "With all thy getting, get understanding" declared Solomon (Proverbs 4:7). We seek to know as much as possible. However, regardless of how much we discover about God and ourselves, we remain limited in our awareness. The truth of the matter is that the more knowledge and understanding we find, the more it must direct us to trust in the only One who knows all. The wise realize that the more one knows, the more one realizes he does not know. Of far greater significance, however, the more we know, the more we realize that God knows. He knows all about Himself, ourselves, His creation, and His active presence in all things. "Too wonderful for me" confessed the Psalmist regarding his Lord's knowledge, the awed sensibility that keeps us in the proper frame of heart and mind, namely, humility and faith (Psalm 139:6).
The more of God we know, the more we know that He knows. The more we know of ourselves and of all others, the more we know that we do not know. Thus, we "get understanding" primarily for the purpose of being made more aware of God's knowledge. In a lifetime and eternity wherein we "live through Him" in dependent faith, this is exactly what we would expect as we realize who He is, who we are, and the wonder of…
"O Lord God, Thou knowest!"
(Ezekiel 37:3)
Weekly Memory Verse
What shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?"
(Romans 8:31)
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