God Knows

 on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 2:19pm

I was talking to a wonderful lady today about her son that was badly injured a few years ago and has come such a long way and is doing so very well.  It always makes me think of those that have lost children "before their time."  We know, as Christians we all know that everything happens as it should in God's timing. But the death of a child is so very hard to take and hard to understand. And it made me think about Jesus.  I have written many times about how Jesus knew from the beginning that He would die for us and how amazing it is that He was so willing to do that and to walk this earth with us.  He knew how we are, that telling us is just not enough. He had to come down and show us how to walk the walk and talk the talk.  Well today I was thinking about God.  About the giving of His son.  To know from the beginning, not only that but to say to your son, "I must give you up. I will have to turn my face from you when the sins of the world come upon you.  I will leave you for a moment.  This must be done." (okay so He knew and most likely didn't say it but still...)  It was just So!! it was done!! The very first day of creation before anything other plans or dreams were laid out.  God sent His son.

A child dies and leave us.  God's son left him to die.  For a life time, Jesus' lifetime on this earth. He was not in Heaven, He was not with His dad.  And then to "lose" Him to sin for a moment, it must have been excruciating.  For Father and Son.  If you think about that is what we are in a moment. What we feel right now is in that moment. God knows how we feel. He knows with more certainty, more understanding, He just plain knows more about suffering than anyone can ever know.  He feels everything we feel as we go through it but more than that He has gone through.  No one was ever tortured more than Jesus.  No one knows more than God how they suffered.  They cried out. God knew the ending. He knew the pain and knew the necessity of it.  I am forever, amazed at His All knowing, All understanding ways.  Everyday He opens my eyes more and more to just how much He truly does understand me and my entire life.  That even with being brought up in such a caustic childhood, that God knows me and can lead me. He will put those I need in my life so I can stretch and grow.  He has given me the way to defeat my self inflicted fortress that block His way into my heart. He shows me the way that He will shatter them if I am willing to let myself be open to Him and to hearing His voice.

No matter what you are going through, no matter how much you have done or will do. God knows you intimately. He knows you even if you don't know Him.  He is amazing in more ways than one can say or even know.  There are no words that can accurately describe His Wonder or His Grace.  That is why He is the Great I AM.  Because that is the only way to describe Him. For there is no other like Him.