Weaving Omniscience

God Weaves

Psalm 139:1-6 ESV

Proverbs 15:3 ESV

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV

Luke 12:6-7 ESV

Psalm 33:20-22 ESV

From the time of my childhood I have revered scripture and have known the WORD is Holy. I have never doubted that fact.

I remember my kindergarten Sunday School teacher Joy. She was so loving and as she shared simple stories from scripture she taught us the Holy Bible really is Holy.

All of my Sunday School teachers after that read from the Holy book. I asked my dad when I was older what Holy meant. He told me it was unlike any other book…set apart.

Later when I studied in Seminary I learned the Hebrew word for Holy is qodesh means coming from God and consecrated. In this sense consecrated means set apart for a specific purpose. I gradually learned that purpose was divine.

As we grow in faith and knowledge and we listen as we read scripture, God the Spirit specifically teaches us as we shut out the world and sit in silence.

In Psalm 139:1-6, David tells us,

“You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.

You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.

You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.”

David wrote this psalm that tells of God’s omnipresence or God’s (all knowing) omniscience and God’s (goodness) that is all benevolence. God IS ever present and watchful. God IS good.

Proverbs 15:3 tells us, “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.”

God sees everything everywhere all the time. For humans that seems really impossible but that’s because we are not God.

When I was younger there was a saying, “I’m sure there is a God and you are not it.” I told myself that when someone was bossing me around. Since I am quasi-child size, people tended to try to boss me around like I was a child. I studied argumentation and debate in college and apologetics in Seminary. I studied how to stand up for myself and I learned to allow myself to use it when necessary (in other words when people were pushing me around).

In Jeremiah 1:5 the Prophet wrote, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Jeremiah knew God created him for a purpose. He knew he was consecrated by God to serve God. He stood up for God.

Jeremiah ‘owned’ his call by God to go and tell the nations the real truth about God and God’s love and protection when we turn to God.

God will not force someone to listen and believe. By choice, we turn to God/Jesus and receive grace and forgiveness.

Because God speaks to us when we listen and protects us as we trust, we learn to wait for God to direct us in the way we should go. God helps us as we wait.

In Psalm 33:20-22 King David wrote,

“Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and our shield.

For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name.

Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you.”

As I grow older and look back over the course of my life there were many many times when I grew impatient because I didn’t think God remembered me, or wasn’t fast enough to act on my behalf. I now see ‘every’ time God knew exactly what I needed. There were times when I wasn’t quite ready and God needed to prepare me. Luke 12:6-7 says, “Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.”

When I grew impatient, I reminded myself about the sparrows. As I grew older I started losing hair and each time I notices I lost a hair I remembered God had to recount the hair on my head. It sounds silly, but it served to remind me that God never ever forgets me (us).

Never ever.

Deborah

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