Who of us hasn't wondered what God knows about our lives? There are moments, most likely, when we want Him to know everything. We think that if He knew we were doing all that we could to help someone, or that we were feeling desperately in need of help ourselves, this knowledge would cause Him to give us His blessing. Then again, in a moment of anger or bad judgment on our part, we might hope He knows nothing of what we've done!
There's a lot riding on understanding the answer to this fundamental question. If God does observe people's comings and goings, wouldn't He know of their difficulties and tragedies? And if that were the case, shouldn't we wonder about the intelligence or love of a deity who watches mortals suffer or perish without intervening?
What are God's thoughts? Are we included in them? To what extent? Answers to these questions require a fundamental change in our thinking if we're assuming that God's thoughts and His ways of operating in the universe are patterned after human modes, perceptions, and conjectures. They're not, as the Bible points out. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord." The book of Isaiah continues, "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isa. 55:8, 9.
