God’s Intimate Knowledge of Us
Everyone believes we have a will that is free to do as we please. What the person believes is not just what a person speaks but that which actually becomes an action. When a person denies that he has a personal will, free to do as it pleases, then he refutes even his own self, for how could he say what is Truth if he cannot know that which is against Truth. To help prove this so, let’s look at two biblical passages identifying moments in history when ungodly men tried to eradicate life because they feared Truth.
“Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other was named Puah;
(Exodus 1: 15-17 NASB)
and he said, “When you are helping the Hebrew women to give birth and see them upon the birthstool, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death;
but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
But the midwives fear God,
and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded them,
but let the boys live.”
These ladies had a choice, a decision, to do as they chose to do: obey the tyrant, new King who did not know Joseph. This king feared the rising number of Israelites over the number of Egyptians, so under the power of his freewill chose death of all boys.
“Because the midwives feared God,
(Exodus 1: 21-22 & 2: 1-4 NASB)
He established households for them.
Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you are to cast into the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive.
Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi.
The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was beautiful,
she hid him for three months.
But when she could hide him no longer,
she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch.
Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
His sister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him”
- Pharoah—by his own freewill, chose to annihilate the male babies born to the Israelites as a form of population control.
- The Midwives—by their own freewill, chose to fear God & to disobey Pharoah’s order to put all male babies to death, instead saving both baby boys and baby girls.
- The male baby’s mother—by her own freewill, chose to save her baby boy and hide him in a wicker basket within the tall reeds growing along the Nile River.
- The baby boy’s sister—by her own freewill, chose to stand watch over her baby brother, making sure not one brought him harm.
If we know the Word of God, then we know this biblical narrative, and we know this baby boy was Moses, whose mother Jochebed and sister Miriam saved his life. We also know that this young baby boy grew up in Pharoah’s own royal palace and that Moses’ own mother served as a nursemaid for her own baby boy. Furthermore, we know Moses, the man chosen by God, served as the leader of the Israelites, leading them across the Red Sea & out of bondage.
God’s omniscient power supersedes everything!
God—in His omniscience—knew the future of His people, knew of their oppression, knew of their pain, and knew His people would need freedom from their bondage.
So, God made a way!
In a second biblical passage that identifies a moment in history, when an ungodly man tried to eradicate life because he feared Truth, we return to the Bible, to the birth of baby Jesus.
“Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged,
(The Gospel According to Matthew 2: 16 NASB)
and sent and slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity,
from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi.”
- Herod the king, by his own freewill, chose to murder the male babies born, attempting to kill the King of kings—Jesus.
“But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said,
(The Gospel According to Matthew 2: 19-21 NASB)
“Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel;
for those who sought the Child’s life are dead.”
So Joseph got up, took the Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel.”
- Joseph, the husband of Mary, the mother of the Son of God, acting by his own freewill, chose to save the Child Jesus and Mary because the angel of God compelled him to.
God’s omniscient power supersedes everything!
God—in His omniscience—knows the future of His creation, knows of their sin-soaked nature, knows their pain, and knows His people need freedom from their bondage.
So, God made The Way–JESUS!
God has an intimate knowledge of us, His creation, which brings us great comfort, for He knew we needed forgiveness from our sins.
How can we say what is Truth if we try to eradicate the Truth which God has innately placed within us at our own conception? Look at a biblical passage that reveals how Life overcame death, showing us why the choice we make—by our own freewill—either leads us to death, to hell OR to life, to eternity with the LORD.
“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin,
(The Letter of Paul to the Romans 5: 12 & 21 NASB)
and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—
so that, as sin reigned in death,
even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
We, by our own human nature, are born in sin.
God’s Intimate Knowledge of Us knows we are in need of a Savior.
So, God sent Himself, in human form to earth, conceived by the Spirit and birthed by Mary.
Jesus, by His divine nature, died and rose again from the grave—
so that we might be saved by His grace.
- We, by our own freewill, choose to believe in the lies of Satan—OR—
- We, by our own freewill, choose to believe in the Truth of Jesus Christ.—AND—
- We, by our own freewill, will choose whether we will share this Good News, the Gospel, with another as the Holy Spirit leads us today.
Truly, the choice is each person’s individual choice to make.