The All-Knowing, All-Wise God

We know that God exists in three Persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We know that God is self-existent, self-sufficient, eternal, infinite, and that He does not and cannot change because He is already perfect.

Today we will be looking at 3 important points:

• The Omniscience of God (the fact that He is all-knowing)

• The Wisdom of God (what it means that God is all-wise)

• How God’s Knowledge and Wisdom Relates to Us

The Omniscience of God

God’s omniscience is all-comprehensive. When we talk about an all-knowing God, it means that God perfectly knows Himself and in Himself all things that come from Him.
He doesn’t see the way people see, who observe only the outward, perceptible manifestations of life, but penetrates to the depths of the human heart (1 Chron 28:9).

We see one example of how God sees all possible and actual outcomes in the gospel of Matthew (Matt 11:21). In other words, each act in history is known to God clearly and with certainty before the act ever occurs because of His foreknowledge.

God knows everything about everything in one moment and is the source of all knowledge and information. Nothing is unknown to God, nothing escapes His knowledge, in fact, He is the Creator of the billions of galaxies and has named every single star.

In Job 37:16-19, Elihu is asking Job a number of rhetorical questions concerning an all-knowing God.
This verse contains a starting point for understanding the vastness of God’s knowledge.

God’s knowledge is not sequential, successive, or cumulative as is true of created beings, who are locked in time, and He doesn’t learn anything new.

God’s knowledge is perfect and comprehensive. And the execution of that knowledge is what we refer to as wisdom. This is the second attribute of God related to His omniscience - God’s boundless. So God is not only all-knowing.

God is all-wise

God doesn’t make mistakes! Tozer points to Romans 16:27 where Paul referred to God as “the only wise God.” God’s wisdom, Tozer relays, always carries a strong moral implication and is conceived as being pure, loving, and good.

God’s perfect wisdom is expressed particularly in creation, Ps. 19:1-7; 104:1-34; in His sovereignty, Ps. 33:10, 11; Rom. 8:28; and in redemption, Rom. 11:33; I Cor. 2:7; Eph. 3:10.

Today we are focusing on His creation in Isa 40:12-14 and Prov 3:19-20. God as the Creator created a world that is perfected suited for life. Scientific explanations cannot replace God but rather increase our wonder and praise of the Creator God.

God, in His infinite wisdom, made Himself known through His creation to the human heart, yet Romans 1:19 tells us that people foolishly reasoned God away through empty speculation, denying the obvious, and trusting in impersonal natural forces and phenomena to explain everything.

God brought His creatures into being that He might enjoy them, and they rejoice in Him. Without creation, the wisdom of God would have remained forever hidden in heaven. But because of His great mercy and love, His wisdom was displayed to everyone and especially to us who believe.

How God’s knowledge and wisdom relates to us

a) How does God’s knowledge and wisdom relate to the human race?

God knew that even though everything He created was good, the very people He created would choose to rebel against Him. Yet God in His perfect knowledge and wisdom had a plan to redeem the human race which after thousands of years and thousands of promises was actualized by the coming of His Son to die on the cross for the sins of the world. And God had a plan before eternity past to redeem us.

In His all-knowing nature, God knew humanity and all creation would fall, but in His boundless wisdom, which is pure, loving, and good, the Trinity devised perfect ends and achieved those ends by the perfect means through Christ’s sacrificial atonement.

In God’s perfect knowledge, He foreknew all that would take place concerning His creation and then devised a perfect end by perfect means because He is so rich in kindness and grace (Eph 1).

b) How God’s knowledge and wisdom relate to us as individuals

An all-knowing, all-wise God purchased our freedom and then He showers us with His kindness, His wisdom, and understanding generously and unreservedly. This is one of the most amazing things to me about an all-knowing and all-wise God that He desires to share His knowledge and wisdom with us.

God’s wisdom is pure, loving, and good and He desires to give us everything we need for an abundant life.
All-knowing means that He knew when you would be born and knows the day of your death, knows every time a hair falls off your head, He knows every thought you think, every word you will speak, every decision you will make.

God knows us intimately (Psalm 139:1-6; Matt 6:4-8). Because God knows the root of our insecurities and can handle our doubts, fears, and critical thoughts.

c) How God’s knowledge and wisdom relates to our future

James 1:5 talks about asking for wisdom from God for a particular moment or situation because there are times when we don’t know what to do, what is the best choice, how to decide between two paths. Eph 5:17 says “Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.” 

These are very unpredictable times but an all-knowing God, not only knows when and what will happen to the world and when events will take place. And because God is all-wise, He can actually direct your steps to make the right decisions through these times, if you trust in Him. God has a good plan for your life and each of our stories is chapters in His great story (Jeremiah 29:11).

God is all knowing and all wise, it means we can trust His will, His Word, His plan and His timing. Even in times of uncertainty, darkness, even though we don’t know all the answers, we do not know all the why’s, but an all-knowing and all-wise God does.  He invites us to seek Him, to get to know Him, to invite Him into every area of our lives.