His Omniscience

Our whimsical ideas and self-made patterns often put us in a rut of humanistic achievement. As if our favorite shirt, or our lucky sweater will somehow change a course of events in our favor. Yet we continue day by day as if on a hamster’s wheel and seeing no progress or fulfillment. The bottom line is that we really do not know what we need without Divine assistance.

There is a story of a superstitious guy named Frank. Frank believed that five was his special number. He was born on May 5, had five children, and lived at 555 East 55 Street. At the track on his 55th birthday, he was surprised to find a horse named Numero Cinco running in the fifth race. So, five minutes before the race, he went to the fifth window and put five thousand down on Numero Cinco. Sure enough, the horse finished fifth. Poor Frank was a victim of his own limited way of thinking. That is the main problem; we are limited in our thinking. God is infinite in wisdom and only He knows what is truly best for us.

Oft times the worst things that happen to us in life are also the best things that happen to us. James 1:2-4 says, “Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.”

You can keep trying to figure your life out all alone or choose to follow the leading of the One who is Omniscient and who already knows the end of your story. His ways supersede any thought or idea we could ever have. Just because he leads you down a different path today than you went yesterday does not mean it is the wrong one. He knows if there are pitfalls or dangers that you need to avoid that day on the old path. Stay sensitive to Him. Walk in the Spirit and let Him lead you each day. David shows us that he had learned this when he penned Psalms 142:3, “When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Then You knew my path. In the way in which I walk They have secretly set a snare for me.”

We walk by faith and not by sight. We may not know why God directs us in certain ways or to do certain things, but we trust Him because He knows. Romans 11:33, “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!”