It is hard to wrap our minds around the omniscience of God.
The word means the state of knowing everything.
We are human and a lot of us… like me, have problems remembering what we did yesterday, or even this morning… or even maybe even a few minutes ago. I’ve been known to go and get a box and directions out of the trash multiple times because I forget how long to cook it or bake it and then I forget again walking back to the stove to set the timer. My kids come and ask me for help with math homework and I haven’t done trig or calculus since my high school days so Google becomes my tutor… Most of us do not have photographic memories and even if we did… there are still things we too easily forget.
So it’s hard for us to understand that God knows all things. And, when we talk about all things… it really does mean all things.
He has seen the ending from the beginning… that means He already knows what will happen five minutes from now, five days from now, five months from now, five centuries from now. He already knows how the story unfolds.
He sees a much larger picture than we do. We see our lives, the lives of those around us, the lives of people on our social media sources… He sees every person in this whole world… all at once.
He knows what truly happens behind closed doors.
He searches the thoughts of men.
He knows our thoughts and the words we are going to say before we even say them.
He knows the choice we will make before we make it.
He is all knowing. Nothing is hidden from Him.
But when you are in the dark. When you are in despair. When you are discouraged and feeling hopeless… You often feel neglected, uncared for, unseen, unwanted, and unloved… you feel like there is nobody… no body… that cares about what you are going through.
In the story of the prodigal son, there is a scripture that I have related to a lot in my life. The young man has spent all his money. He’s destitute. He’s living in poverty… and he’s taking care of pigs. The Bible says that he was feeding the pigs and starving. His starvation was so great that he wanted to eat the pig food.
Now, my daddy raised pigs.
I remember as a little girl, we always had a five-gallon bucket sitting in our kitchen or in our basement that we would scrape our dinner plates off into. We didn’t have a garbage disposal or a dishwasher… my daddy always said he had three dishwashers… all our scraps and unwanted food went into that bucket. Peeling potatoes, carrots, chopping lettuce or onions… all the ends and bits of peelings went into that bucket. After we ate, what was left on the plates went into that bucket. Anything rotting or old… went into that bucket. After a few days… it was, needless to say… a yucky nasty mess. It didn’t always smell so great either. When the bucket was full, but not full enough we couldn’t carry it without spilling it… we’d carry it up this hill behind our house to the pig pens. There, it would get poured it into the feeding troughs and those pigs would grunt and shove each other getting to that good ‘ole slop.
My dad would also stop at a couple of locally owned grocery stores and pick up the leftover produce they were throwing out and bring it home to feed his pigs. Produce and bread that were old and starting to mold or turn brown or had bad spots on them would be put in boxes and he’d get it. Other times, he’d wake us up before daylight and we’d go to the corn fields. After the machines went through harvesting the corn, we’d pick up the leftover bits of corn cobs and bring home truckloads of those to feed the pigs with.
And, I think about that passage of scripture and I think about my dad’s pigs and how nasty they were and how gross those feed buckets, slop, old produce, and leftover corn was and I think … there’s no way I could eat that mess.
But this boy was starving and when you’re hungry you’ll eat anything to get the gnawing pain to go away.
The Bible says “and no one gave him anything”.
There was nobody there for him. Nobody to help him. They came and had food to be fed to those pigs and nothing for him. A human. A person. A living, breathing, God made soul… he had nothing.
Imagine the loneliness and hurt and unwantedness as he is starving and watching pigs eat food he would have gladly eaten for himself.
That’s how it feels when we find ourselves in the pits and in the deserts and in the wildernesses and in the caves of life. We are out there all alone and nobody cares and nobody gives us anything! We do almost anything to relieve the pain and gnawing and suffering.
David felt that way too.
“Look on my right hand and see, for there is no one who acknowledges me”
We have to come to the realization and develop the mindset that in the midst of our pain… God sees us. He knows where we are. We have to renew our minds to think differently. We have to change our thinking and determine in our minds to know and believe that God knows our paths. He is omniscient and He knows all things… that includes where we are right now and where He is taking us.
He knows when you rise up.
He knows when you fall down.
He knows when you’re on track.
He knows when you’re not.
He knows where you are.
Even in the deepest caves and darkest places of your life, when it seems that no one else cares anything about you or what you are going through… God knows exactly where you are. And, He has never left your side.
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