Geoffrey R. Kirkland
Pastor, Christ Fellowship Bible Church
The OMNISCIENCE of God means that God has all knowledge and that nothing is hidden from Him. Even the Apostle Peter said to Jesus: “You know all things” (John 21:17). The omniscience of God brings us to the wonderful truth of God’s being that He has perfect knowledge of everything in every place. Nothing is hidden from God in the past, in the present, or in the future.
Most marvelously and uniquely, God’s omniscience means that He is never surprised by anything that happens. He knows everything in the future and in the past perfectly, infinitely, and intricately. Hannah prayed: “The Lord is a God of knowledge” (1 Samuel 2.3).
The omniscience of God also refers to God as being the perfect standard and criterion of what is true. God’s wisdom and knowledge is the perfect understanding of what is, and what shall be, and what has happened. God never forgets anything and He never is frustrated over events that transpire.
Every detail of everything in the universe is in plain sight and known perfectly to God. This baffles our minds when we ponder that God perfectly and exhaustively knows every object, creature, event, action, thought and motivation in all of existence. That’s why the Psalmist exclaimed: “such knowledge is too wonderful for me” (Psalm 139.6).
The perfect knowledge of God does not mean He just knows mere facts but that He has complete and thorough understanding of everything without error or limitation or hindrance. There are no falsehoods to God. Nothing is unknown to God. To be God is to be omniscient. This isn't merely what God does but it reveals who God is.
This unique and blessed mark of God’s being should instill great terror into the unbelieving heart. For will bring every act into judgment, everything which is hidden, whether good or evil (Ecclesiastes 12.14). Furthermore, God says that “His eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from His face; nor is their iniquity concealed from His eyes” (Jeremiah 16.17). Because there is no creature hidden from God’s sight but all things are open and laid bare before the eyes of God with whom we have to give an account (Hebrews 4.13), sinners have endless reasons to trust Christ immediately, urgently, humbly, and confidently!
But for the forgiven child of God, the omniscience of God brings such comfort, relief, and security. God promises that our sins are hidden from His eyes as He chooses to not hold them against His people anymore (Hebrews 8.12). God knows what’s going on in your life. Christ lived your life and can relate to you (Hebrews 4:15). He knows what it is to live a real human life and bear with temptation (Mark 1.13). He knows you, loves you, and presents you as holy and blameless before the Father because of His sin-atoning, and substitutionary work in your place (Colossians 1.22).
