THE PRACTICAL EFFECTS OF GOD’S OMNISCIENCE

There are at least seven blessings that are the practical effects of the omniscience of God.

• There is consolation for us in difficulties.  In an unemployment line, hospital room, funeral home, wherever—you are not alone!

• There is direction for us in decisions.  The Good Shepherd walks with His sheep.  Having a Guide by our side is better than even a map in our hand!

• There is protection for us in dangers.  We may say with. David in Psalm 23, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.”  Why? “For You are with me!”

• There is companionship for us in desertion. “When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take care of me.” (Ps.27:10). The Lord has promised, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Heb.13:5b)

• There is encouragement for us in depression.  At our lowest point, God is there.  Corrie Ten Boom who was locked away in a Nazi concentration camp, where her sister would die, testified, “There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.”

• There is provision for us in witness.  “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age.”  That was our Lord’s promise to His church as we have been given the Great Commission to reach the world with the Gospel. We can’t do that in our power, and we need not, for He goes with us.

• There is conviction for us in temptation.  We may stand with conviction and not surrender to compromise with evil.  “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.” (I Peter‬ ‭5:8-11‬). Yes, Satan is a roaring lion seeking to devour you, but we have the Almighty Lion of Judah standing to deliver you!

Embrace these promises of His presence today and they will make a difference in your life—the reality of God with us!