Forgive me for putting in another quote from A.W. Tozer --
God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and every spirit and all the spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all enigmas, all feelings, all desires, every unuttered secret, all thrones and dominions, all personalities, all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven and hell
If we thought that the bad side of sovereignty can seem tyrannical and the expectation side of holiness terrifying, omniscience could seem taunting - The eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth ... – 2 Chronicles 16:9.
Just as God’s omniscience assures us that He knew what our choices would be, so His sovereignty assures us that He consciously allowed those choices as the best possible means of displaying His own glory, that He has complete control of them at every moment, and that He will overrule them to accomplish His own perfect purposes.
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