God is omniscient. His job is to know everything. He knows the deep past and the most distant future. There is nothing he doesn’t know.

We, on the other hand, know very little in comparison. It’s humbling, to be sure, but it’s also comforting and freeing to realize that God knows all and we don’t have to. Quite frankly, we couldn’t handle it. Our job is to know the One who knows it all—God.

We would do well to follow the same precepts established in the seventeenth century by that great Ivy League pillar of knowledge—Harvard University—namely “. . . to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life.” That’s really all you need to know, for when you know Jesus—not just know about him—but have a personal relationship with him, you will know the one who loves you and gave his life for you.

The apostle Paul, one of history’s most brilliant men, summed it up best when he said, “Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.”  When we know God more and more, we will love him more and more. We will also love others more purely.  Who cares how smart you are? What matters is how loving you are, and that starts by knowing God.

“I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him, because he first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, one who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted for me, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters.”    J.I Packer

Psalm 94:11 The LORD knows all human plans; he knows that they are futile.

Psalm 139:1-4 O LORD, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on my tongue, O LORD, You know it all.

John 17:3 And this is the way to have eternal life–to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.

1 Corinthians 8:1 We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.

Colossians 2: 2-3 I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have complete confidence that they understand God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ himself. In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.