“Where are you?” are the words GOD used to query Adam and Eve after they had sinned against Him in Genesis 3:9. The funny thing is that He(GOD) knew exactly where they were. He asked them for their benefit. He wanted them to recognize what he knew, that because of their sin, they were lost and had started to die.
The fact is God knows all about us. Psalm 139 give incredible inside into God’s knowledge of us.
1 O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.
Theologians use the word Omniscient to describe God and the fact that he is all knowing; which brings me to my point.
Most of us, who are in pursuit of God, eventually get to a point where we turn around to notice that He is in purist of us. We often give much effort to trying to understand Him and little time resting in the truth that he fully understands us. In Bob George’s book, Growing in Grace, he has written, “We read one Christian book after another explaining how to know Him, but we seldom read a book explaining how to walk by faith in the fact that He also knows us.”
This one idea has taken me from being a very anxious Christian, trying to figure out God, to a much less (smile) anxious Christian, resting in the truth that he has me figured out. My life is surrendering to His purposes and plans for me, not striving to have him influence something for me. “He is the vine we are the branches (John 15:5).” It is His love for us (1 John 4:10), not our love for him, that should motivate us to give our lives completely to him.
Stop running after God. Realize that even now, he is running after you. -TD
