The Psalm of Infinite Knowledge

I have writ­ten only one post with absolutely noth­ing but Scrip­ture, and it was Psalm 139. The majes­tic word­ing, and inti­mate knowl­edge illus­trated so elo­quently in this Psalm is some­thing quite unimag­in­able, and a friend got me to reflect on it again.

I just reserved a room to give a pre­sen­ta­tion on Open The­ism on the 11th of May. This Psalm became impor­tant to me when I was study­ing this the­o­log­i­cal sys­tem. I was in peril try­ing to look through Scrip­ture and see if it was pos­si­ble that God truly didn’t know every­thing that would come to pass.

“You scru­ti­nize my path and my lying down, And are inti­mately acquainted with all my ways” (vs. 3)

It is truly unfath­omable to try and wrap your mind around a Cre­ator who inti­mately knows those who He would redeem very per­son­ally. Some the­o­log­i­cal sys­tems declare that God’s fore­knowl­edge comes through His “gain­ing knowl­edge” of our future choices. What a ter­ri­ble way to put man above God! Where has the rev­er­ence gone?

The God of the Bible doesn’t “learn” of what we will do, but He plans it out as such. I’m so full of incred­i­ble amounts of joy to have the rev­e­la­tion that I am tak­ing part in God’s plan to glo­rify Him­self (Romans 9:22–23).

Your eyes have seen my unformed sub­stance; And in Your book were all writ­ten The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them. (vs. 16)

Through God’s glo­ri­ous act of fore­or­di­na­tion, all will take part in His plan. To grap­ple with the though of fore­or­dain­ing the death of His own Son (Acts 2:23) is beyond com­pre­hen­sion. I have real­ized the futil­ity of try­ing to wrap my mind around an infi­nite being. Through years of frus­tra­tion try­ing to fit God into my Rubik’s Cube, I am finally free of try­ing to under­stand and work­ing on enjoy­ing Him.

For we are His work­man­ship, cre­ated in Christ Jesus for good works, which God pre­pared before­hand so that we would walk in them.
Eph­esians 2:10