God Only Knows

 . . . you discern my thoughts from afar.

    - from Psalm 139: 1-11, 22-23

Not only does God know the future (more accurately, He occupies eternal NOW, and therefore the past, present, and future are the same to Him), but He can read our minds.

Somehow, God is able to know this about every one of us 8 Billion people. And He knows the thoughts of the people that came before us, and that will follow. He knows all of it, all at once.

Only God knows if the unborn child is thinking anything. He knows if the person in a coma feels, and has emotions. Does an unborn child feel? Does he fear? Does he cry? Does he laugh, or smile? God only knows.

Does the nonagenarian whose memory is all but gone, remember still, but quietly? Does she know . . . but just can't express it? Does she enjoy any moment of any day? Does she have hopes for the future, and regrets? God only knows.

But it's good that somebody knows. And part of the joy of being glorified some day, with Christ; in new bodies, with new minds, with full knowledge and full awareness . . . is that we will know, too.

This is why God wanted us to focus on the young (orphans), the aged (widows), and the alien (friendless). Because somewhere deep within the heart of every child of God is a longing, an unfulfilled hope. It's in there somewhere, even if we can't see it. Like the future that we cannot see; it is real. And it doesn't hurt us at all, if we look for opportunities to spark that hope, and calm that fear, that God sees, but we don't.