God is all-knowing.
God knows everything. God has perfect knowledge of all people and all things. God does not learn. He cannot be taught anything. God never changes and His knowledge is complete. God knows all minds, all creatures, all thoughts, all mysteries, all feelings, all secrets, all desires, all personalities, all good, all evil, all workings, all things visible and all things invisible. God knows EVERYTHING! We call this “omniscience”.
God is never surprised. God never wonders about anything. God doesn’t have to ask questions to get an answer. God contains all knowledge.
God knows you perfectly! He knows all about you - your thoughts, your words (even before you say them!), your actions, your intentions, your desires, your feelings, everything! A.W. Tozer says, “No talebearer can inform on us, no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can come tumbling out of some hidden closet and abash us and expose our past; no unsuspected weakness in our character can come to light to turn God away from us, since He knew us utterly before we knew Him and called us to Himself in the full knowledge of everything that was against us.” God knows you perfectly and still chose to call you to Himself and love you. Nothing about you, nothing in your actions, nothing in your thoughts or words, surprises God. He knows you completely!
Think about what these verses mean:
Psalm 147:5 “Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite.”
Psalm 139:4 “Even before there is a word on my tongue, Behold, O LORD, You know it all.”
Hebrews 4:13 “And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.”
Psalm 44:21 “Would not God find this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.”
How can God’s perfect knowledge of you be a little scary?
How does knowing God is merciful and good bring comfort in Him being all-knowing?
How might you live differently if you keep God’s all-knowing attribute in mind?
Getting to know God in relationship:
How will you talk to God differently and read His word differently because of this attribute?
Written by Wendy Wood, CHCC counselor