God: Omniscient

God: Omniscient The Far-Seeing Eye
As the astronomer Mitchell was one day observing the setting sun through a large telescope and gradually lowering the instrument to keep in view the great body of light slowly sinking in the western sky, there came within his line of vision the top of a distant hill, upon which grew a number of apple trees.
In one of these trees were two boys, apparently stealing the apples. One was getting the fruit, while the other appeared to be keeping watch, to make sure that they were not seen. However, seven miles away, Professor Mitchell had his telescope trained on them and was watching their every movement as though he were on the hilltop.
"All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do" (Hebrews 4:13). Where Are You Going?
We are on our way somewhere-and not just out to lunch after church or to a party next Thursday.
A small boy, with his father, was in an elevator going up in the Empire State Building in New York. As they flashed by the 66nd floor, the lad, in considerable anxiety, seized his father's hand, and in an awestruck whisper, said, "Does God know we are coming?"
This is an amusing story; but, the serious answer is: Yes, God knows we are coming!

God Meets Each Individual Need
God has His own way of speaking to every soul. He starts with something known. We have all heard about Helen Keller, who became blind, deaf, and mute as a child. What could be the use of such a life? She was a prisoner of darkness, deprived of the outside light. However, behind the darkness and silence there was a unique intelligence waiting to be kindled by a spark from without. Her dedicated teacher was the one who led her out into the larger world and enabled her to communicate by the sense of touch. But how could Helen Keller communicate with God, or God with her? Her teacher decided to try to tell her the story of God's revelation in Jesus Christ. Using the language of touch, she did her best. At the end the child responded, "Oh, I knew He must exist, but I didn't know His name!" God had revealed Himself to her in a very special way. He can do this for every human being who is willing to listen. He has some way in which He can reach us according to our individual need and ability to comprehend.

Mature Understanding
Bill comes to the alley where for years he has parked his car, only to find a ticket on it. He fumes and fusses because there was no sign prohibiting parking in that area. Nevertheless he pays his fine and resolves never to park his car there again. Still, he can't understand the why of it. Some days later, however, he has his answer. During a windstorm a mammoth oak had fallen right across the place where he had been parking his car. Had it been in its accustomed place, it would have been smashed. Thanks to the ticket that cost him three dollars it was not there. Of course, it pleases God sometimes never to explain to us the reasons for many of His actions in our lives. But Paul maintains that the more mature we become as Christians the more God will reveal to us.

You Can't Distract God
I remember that when I was in high school we had a mathematics teacher who loved to talk. If our lesson was difficult and we wanted to avoid tackling it, one of the students would adroitly put a question to the teacher to get him started. Good-bye to the lesson for that day! We often try to treat God in a similar manner, thinking to distract Him from His subject. When He tells us we must repent in order to be saved from sin, we resort to a philosophical argument as to what constitutes sin. Be careful. God is not an easily distracted professor of mathematics. He knows all our tricks.

Under God's Watchful Eye
Let us not be like the two little boys on the hilltop, one of whom was up a tree stealing apples and the other watching to make sure they were safe from observation. They were blissfully unaware that someone watched them through a telescope several miles away, noting each motion and even the guilty expression of their faces as plainly as if he had been in the tree with them. How absurd for the boys to conclude that observation ended with their own vision, and that safety was the result of what they could distinguish! In this universe, which is but the result of God's handiwork, we are no more intelligent than these two little boys, if we conclude that God cannot observe us, since we cannot see Him with our own two eyes.

God's Way
A little boy asked, "Why is it that when I open a marigold it dies, but if God does it, it's so beautiful?" Before anyone could answer him, he said, "I know! It's because God always works from the inside." That's God's wise way of working with men-from the inside. The Exact Meaning
A Christian businessman who had suffered heavy losses was tempted to doubt the goodness of God. "Why did He allow these reverses to come to me?" he questioned. One night as he sat dejected and discouraged before the fireplace, his six-year-old son came and sat in his lap. Over the mantle hung a motto that read, "God's works are perfect." "Daddy, what does perfect mean?" asked the boy. Before the father could reply he continued, "Does it mean that God never makes a mistake?" The thought was just what the father needed. Hugging his son to him he said, "Yes, Johnny, that's just what it means!" Our Omniscient God
Dr. Robert E. Speer tells the story of an old sculptor who was cutting a figure that was to stand in a niche in the wall so that its back would never be seen, yet he was working with the same painstaking care on the back as on the front. Someone asked, "Why are you working on the back of that figure? No one will see it." "Ah," replied the sculptor, "God will always be looking upon it." "I am not sure," continues Dr. Speer, "that it is not on the obscurities of our lives that God looks, far more than on what we regard as our real life, upon which men look. What He looks at, after all, is what is back of the life." That is the heart.

Intelligent Architect
Existing things are not the result of chance. No one ever saw a rude heap of bricks dumped from a cart onto the ground arrange themselves into the walls, rooms, and chimneys of a house. The dust filings on a brassfounder's table have never been known to form themselves into the wheels and mechanism of a watch. The types loosely flung from the founder's mold never yet fell into the form of a poem, such as Homer, or Dante, or Milton would have constructed. Only an illogical person could believe that nature's magnificent temple was built without an architect, her flowers of glorious beauty were colored without a painter, and her intricate, complicated, but perfect machinery constructed without an intelligent mind. That man gave the atheist a crushing answer, who told him that the very feather with which he penned the words, "There is no God," refuted the audacious lie. It takes logic to come to the conclusion that there must have been a lógos, an intelligence behind what we see.

God Knew What He Was Doing
For a number of years our family had supported an orphan girl in Greece. We finally brought her to the United States to live in our home. One day I took her with me to a church, and while there she gave her testimony. Among other things she said: "God permitted me to become an orphan. Evil men killed my father. My mother died of cancer. But God knew what He was doing. As a result of being left an orphan, I entered a Christian orphanage where I found Christ. If I had not become an orphan, I might never have come to know Jesus Christ."