Do you know what God knows? God knows all things.1 Do you?2 He knows how everything came to be,3 and how everything comes to an end.4 He knows the relationship between all things and how everything affects everything else. He knows the true worth of all things. He knows all possible actions, their long-term cost, and their long-term benefit.
Most will readily admit that their knowledge is far less than God’s knowledge, but few realize that this means that they also do not know his character. God’s knowledge is a fundamental part of his character. How can you know what God would do, why he would do it, or how he would feel in doing so if you don’t know what he knows? If there remains anything that he knows that you do not yet know, then even if you know him somewhat, you do not know him fully. To fully know how he is, you would also have to fully know what he knows.
Footnotes
- 1. O how great the holiness of our God! For he knoweth all things, and there is not anything save he knows it. (2 Nephi 9:20) ↩
- 2. Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. (Isaiah 40:28, NKJV) ↩
- 3. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. (Job 38:4) ↩
- 4. And he did expound all things, even from the beginning until the time that he should come in his glory—yea, even all things which should come upon the face of the earth, even until the elements should melt with fervent heat, and the earth should be wrapt together as a scroll, and the heavens and the earth should pass away; (3 Nephi 26:3) ↩