His Understanding Is Infinite

[Chad]

Today's Devotional - August 6

His Understanding Is Infinite

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.
Psalm 147:5

Recommended Reading
Psalm 147:1-6

Notice the phrase in the verse above—"His understanding is infinite." That's the attribute of God called omniscience. The prefix omni means all; science means knowledge. According to Psalm 147, the all-knowingness of God should propel us to praise.

God knows all we know, all the angels know, all the universal truths of the cosmos, and all the particulars of our lives down to the number of hairs on our heads. He knows the future as well as the past. He knows what will happen and what will not. If He were a chess player, the Lord would instantly know all the possible moves of every piece into infinity. He knows all realities and contingencies. His understanding is infinite.

Ours is not. Even in heaven we'll not be omniscient, but we'll always be capable of learning, of advancing in wisdom. The more we understand God and His precepts, the more we realize how much more we need to learn. It's exciting to realize we can grow wiser as we humbly learn at the feet of Jesus. May the Lord teach us more of His wisdom and His ways today!

God knows all things independently…. He receives not His knowledge from anything without Him; He hath no tutor to instruct Him, or book to inform Him.
Stephen Charnock, in The Existence and Attributes of God

Read-thru-the-Bible
Jeremiah 9-11