Did God Miss Something?

“For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.” (Ecc 12:14)

Do you remember when Jeremiah asked the question about who can know the heart because it is deceitful? This question communicates that no man can understand it, but Jeremiah would go on to say it is God who searches and knows it (Jer 17:9-10). Nothing gets by God.

David says in Psalm 139 that God has searched Him.

Charles Spurgeon has said, “God knows all things naturally and as a matter of course, and not by any effort on his part. Searching ordinarily implies a message of ignorance which is removed by observation; of course this is not the case with the Lord; but the meaning of the Psalmist is, that the Lord knows us thoroughly as if he had examined us minutely, and had pried into the most secret corners of our being.” (The Treasury of David, pg. 258)

No one but God can look further and deeper. He is the divine Big Brother. There is nothing outside of His knowledge.

A.W. Pink wrote in his book Gleanings in the Godhead, “God knows everything; everything possible, everything actual; all events, all creatures, of the past, the present, and the future. He is perfectly acquainted with every detail in the life of every being in heaven, in earth, and in hell. … Nothing escapes his notice, nothing can be hidden from him, nothing is forgotten by him. … He never errs, never changes, never overlooks anything.” (pg. 19)

God never discovers anything. God is never surprised or never amazed. God never wonders about anything nor does He seek information or ask questions. God has never learned and will never have to learn. God knows all things past, present and future, all things actual and possible. No matter how far we go from God, He still sees us perfectly.

In the western Pacific Ocean sits the Mariana Trench, which oceanologists say is the deepest part of the oceans on the planet. It is deepest at 6.8 miles down (or almost 36,000 feet) in a place called Challenger Deep. It is a place where no sunlight can penetrate and only 1 man has ever gone.  

Every word we even consider using God knows. Every word in our vocabulary He knows. Even before our brains starts working and coming up with something to say, He knew everything we would consider uttering. Every feeling or idea or resolve or goal or doubt or perplexity is known by Him. We cannot run forward or backward away from Him; we cannot ever get any farther from Him than we are now, because he knows and sees all.  

All this means that no act of sin will go unchecked, unchallenged, and un-judged. He will bring all to light. Nothing will get by Him.