God's Omniscience God's knowledge of us is personal 1 Cor 8:2-3 - "If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if one loves God, one is known by him." God is the only one who knows everything, and we are known and accepted by God as one of his redeemed. Think of this personal, intimate, reciprocal, mutual knowledge reserved for those who love God. God knows everybody perfectly, yet he "knows" those who love him in a special way. "If one loves God, one is known by him." We come to know God as we open ourselves to him and allow him access to our heart. We have to choose to allow it. God longs for us to enter into a relationship of mutual knowledge with him. Jn 10:14 - "I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me, as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep." Gal 4:9 (NAB) - "Now that you have come to know God - or rather, have been known by him - how can you return to those powerless, worthless, natural elements to which you seem willing to enslave yourselves once more?" 1 Cor 13:12 - "For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood." God wants us to know his love, joy, grace and peace regardless of what is happening in our life. Jer 29:11 - "I know well the plans I have in mind for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare, not for woe! Plans to give you a future full of hope." God wants us to know his promises in the scripture so that we will be able to know and cling to those promises during difficult times. God wants his word to be the food that will strengthen us in time of need. Some of you may not know that my oldest son, Jimmy, was severely burned thirteen years ago. He had second and third degree burns on 30% of his body and spent three weeks in intensive care in the Baltimore Burn Center. As we were on the way to Baltimore from Frederick, Jimmy was awake and he kept asking me why this had happened to him. I want you to know that God was so present to me at that moment and I was able to tell Jimmy that since before creation, God knew that moment would happen in his life, and God would get him through it. Jimmy's accident happened for some reason I still can't define, but God allowed it to happen because nothing passes through his hands without his full knowledge. Rom. 8:28 - "We know that in everything God works for good and those who love him, who are called according to his purpose." God knew since before creation that Jimmy would be burned. He alone knows why it happened. He gave us the grace to get through it, and he alone can heal Jimmy from the trauma and stress he still faces as a result of that accident. God will heal Jimmy when he is able to fully turn to the Lord and seek this healing in his life. Mt 6:8 - "For your Father knows what you need before you ask him." God knows Jimmy's needs better than I do, and he will meet those needs. God allowed me to leave MOG, and even my Church, so that I could take the time I needed to come to grips with the truths of my Catholic faith. God gave me the grace to sort through all that had happened in my life at MOG and he knew I would recommit and rededicate my life to him in a much deeper way as I sought him with all my heart and found him in the Eucharist. If we allow God, he will let us share in his own knowledge of himself and of us - 1 Cor 2:10-12 - "God has revealed this wisdom to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For what person knows a man's thoughts except the spirit of the man which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God." The Spirit who "searches the depths of God" can allow human beings to share in his own divine knowledge, so that we can think with the mind of Christ. 1 Cor 2:16 - "'For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?' But we have the mind of Christ."

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