I'd like to talk to you about omniscience.

What would you do if you knew absolutely everything, even things that hadn't yet happened?

I imagine many people would pop into their nearest 7-Eleven and choose the winning lottery numbers.

But for me, honestly, just once in my life, I'd like to join the fastest moving line at my local branch of Target.

Unfortunately, for my plan to triumphantly reach the checkout before other people,

Omniscience is one of God's so-called incommunicable attributes, meaning that it's an attribute that we do not share with him.

We looked at two other incommunicable attributes in two earlier episodes of simply put,

when we thought about God's omnipotence and his omnipresence.

The word omniscience comes from the Latin omnis, meaning all, and Scientia, meaning knowledge. So literally,

omniscience refers to the fact that God has all knowledge. There's nothing hidden from him,

past, present or future, so there's nothing that would surprise him or confuse him. And as well as knowing everything about the

world and everything about himself, he also, unlike us, knows how everything appears from every

possible point of view. Psalm 139 says, O Lord, you have searched me 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 know it completely, O Lord.

The Lord searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought, First Chronicles

Chapter 28.

Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight.

Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Hebrews chapter 4.

Well, what difference does this make?

How does knowing that God knows everything make a radical difference to a person's life?

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