What do Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Alexander Graham Bell have in common? All three are inventors of forms of technology that revolutionized the industrial world. As such, each man must have possessed knowledge requisite to the task. Each must have understood his invention prior to bringing it into existence. In fact, it would be absurd to say that these men conceived and designed their inventions without such knowledge.
On Day 9, we came to the conclusion that God is the Creator (so to speak, the Inventor) of the universe. If so, He must have intimate knowledge of His “invention.” It would be absurd to assert otherwise. As Creator of the universe, He must possess knowledge of it from its center to its periphery, from its smallest unit to its largest body, from its simplest to its most complex parts. He must know each of us in great detail. In fact, it would stand to reason that He would know us better than we know ourselves.
The word applied to such knowledge, of course, is omniscience, a divine attribute long-ascribed by theologians. However they may define this term, they have to include therein a scope of knowledge that defies the imagination.
To underscore the breadth of this knowledge, think with me of the worldwide Internet web. The amount of information there is astronomical. You and I can click on any topic and explore thousands of sites filled with informative facts. The sum total of knowledge available is too great for words. Compared to God’s knowledge, however, it is just a drop in the ocean. God’s omniscience includes so much more. He knows things too trivial to locate on the web, such as every action of every man and every woman in every second of every day in every age. The magnitude of this is too great for a thousand search engines to retrieve in a thousand years. In addition to this, God understands all present discoveries of science and technology and all future advances, the likes of which we cannot presently fathom. Greater still, He knows the heart and soul of every person, those thoughts and emotions kept to ourselves. These, fortunately, are also beyond the Internet’s reach.
All this He knows and so much more. No wonder the psalmist exclaimed years ago, “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high. I cannot attain it!”
-Dear God, You Sure Don't Act Like You're Alive (Day 15)
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