GOD KNOWS!

There are two things a born again believer cannot do:  we cannot surprise God, nor can we disappoint Him.  That is because God is Omniscient!  God knows what good things we will do for His glory, even before we do them, and likewise, He also knows those things we will do that are sinful, whether by committing sin, or failing to do what we know is His will for us (sins of commission - Rom. 14:23 and omission - Jam. 4:17). 

Isaiah wrote:  "Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure" (46:10).  So sure of the outcome of what takes place in time, God not only revealed future events to His prophets, but the Bible says He already has a book, written before time, with the names of all who would come to faith in His Son (Rev. 13:8; 17:8)!

"(Jesus), being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:  Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that He should be holden of it" (Acts 2:23-24).

"Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied" (1 Pet. 1:1-2).

"According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:  having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved" (Eph. 1:4-6).

"Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:  to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Eph. 3:8-11).


Yes, God knows His children and He knows what it will take to make us like Jesus; He has begun that work, and it will only be completed when we see the Lord face-to-face (Rom. 5:8; 2 Cor. 5:21; Phil. 1:6; 1 Jn. 3:2)!

 

One day soon, we shall know what God has always known! 

For me, it cannot be soon enough!