What A Great Consolation!

"And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy servant." (2 Samuel 7:20)

It is a great consolation to me that God knows instantly, effortlessly and perfectly all matter and all matters... all causes and all relations, all effects and all desires, all mysteries and all enigmas, all things unknown and hidden. There are no mysteries to God.

I'm not worried about these satellites they're shooting around the earth. I'm not worried about Kruschev [former leader of the Soviet Union] or any of the rest of those fellows over there with names you can't pronounce. Because God's running His world and He knows all about it. He knows where these men will die, He knows where they will be buried and He knows when they'll be buried God knows all hidden things, "dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto" (1 Timothy 6:16).

And He also knows His people. You who have fled for refuge to Him, Jesus Christ the Lord, He knows you, and you're never n orphan. A Christian is never lost, though he may think he is. The Lord knows where he is. The Lord knows all about him. He knows about his health and knows about his business. Isn't it a consolation to you that our Father knows it all?

Yes, Father, it is a huge consolation to me that You know all there is to know. I rest in that comfort today. Amen

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God Knows And Cares

"Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you." (1 Peter 5:7)

And to us who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope that is set before us in the gospel, how unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely. No talebearer can inform on us, no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can come tumbling our of some hidden closet to abash us and expose our past; no unsuspected weakness in our characters 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. "For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee" (Isaiah 54:10).

Our Father in heaven knows our frame and remembers that we are dust. He knew our inborn treachery, and for His own sake engaged to save us (48:8-11). His only begotten Son, when He walked among us, felt our pains in their naked intensity of anguish. His knowledge of our afflictions and adversities is more than theoretic; it is personal, warm and compassionate. Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.

Lord, as David said, "such knowledge is too wonderful for me" (Psalm 139:6). Thank You for Your intimate knowledge and Your infinite care. Amen

~A. W. Tozer~