God's Omniscience God knows our thoughts, hurts, fears, and hidden sins We cannot hide anything from God. Heb 4:13 (NIV) - "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account." Yet we try to hide, because we are ashamed or afraid, just as Adam and Eve were. Humanity has been hiding from God ever since the Fall. We might subconsciously think, "If he knew this about me, he wouldn't love me." Yet the truth is that his steadfast love for us is total and unchanging. God seeks us out, because he longs for us to open ourselves to him, to come into the light and be healed and saved by him. He alone knows our hearts and can justly judge us. This is so awesome and comforting. When I turned away from the Church and the Sacraments, I couldn't open my heart and mind to him because I was afraid and ashamed because I had turned away from God. God knew my thoughts and my fears, and even the deepest desire of my heart, which was to be right with him. God in his loving mercy touched my heart and awakened the desire for the Eucharist in me and gently and lovingly called me back to the Church, because God is the initiator. 1 Jn 3:19-20 - "By this we shall know that we are of the truth, and reassure our hearts before him whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything." Jesus demonstrated the Father's omniscience. He always knew what was in the hearts of the people. He knew human nature. Jesus wanted faithful followers, not just those who believed because he worked signs and wonders. Jn 2:24-25 (NIV) - "But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. He did not need man's testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man." Jesus forgave the sins of the paralytic and the Pharisees were thinking that he was blaspheming. Mt 9:4 - "But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, 'Why do you think evil in your hearts?'" Jesus exposes the sin in us, so it can be brought into the light and healed. He wants us to see our sin so that we can turn to him and be forgiven. (See also Mt 12:25 - Lk 6:8 - 9:47 - 11:17.) God knows all of the hurts and wounds and fears that separate us from him. He knows our strengths and weaknesses, he knows all of our judgments and our resentments and our joys and our sorrows - and he sent His One and Only Son, Jesus, to save us from these sins.

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