If you say, “Surely we did not know this,” Does not He who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, does He not know it? And will He not render to each man according to his deeds? (Proverbs 24:12)

The Incredible Knowledge Of God

When God created humankind, He did not bestow on them the ability to know the thoughts of one another. The knowledge of what another is thinking and what is in his heart is too great a burden for a man to bear. There would be a multitude of consequences if this power were given to mortal man. No man can know what is in the heart of another until that thought is expressed. While God limited man’s heart, He did not restrict His ability to understand what is in the heart of all men.

The knowledge possessed by God is unfathomable. If the world’s population hovers around eight billion souls, how does the Lord retain such information from each individual on a day-to-day, year-to-year basis? Isaiah said that God has a name for every star, and the number of stars is unnumerable. His power is far beyond the puny efforts of human wisdom to contain an atom-sized molecule of knowledge. Yet, God weighs the hearts of every person. He gives life to every person. Not only does God know the hearts of every soul on earth (from time beginning), but He recounts and renders to each man according to his deeds.

A man who lived for eighty years would have filled 29,200 days of busy activity. In those days, the Lord God will recount 700,800 hours of a man’s life with every second being noted; 2,524,556,160 to be exact. Every one of those seconds was weighed by the hand of God. Each minute that became an hour of life was rendered in the book of memory of the Lord God. He knows and watches what every soul on the American continents is thinking while simultaneously processing the thoughts and motives of those on the European, Asian, African, and Australian continents and even desolate Antarctica. No one is left out, whether living in a sprawling metropolis or the deepest reaches of the Amazon jungle.

Life is given by the hand of God. He breathes into each human being the breath of life. Man is an eternal creature made in the image of God for His glory. Adam and Eve were the first two people on the face of the earth. From Adam and Eve, all humanity evolved through many thousands of years and will continue for as long as the Lord wills. Whatever number of souls make up the timeline of the history of yesterday or the history yet to be made, God knows every heart. Nothing is hidden from His mind. This is the most reassuring feeling for the child of God to know the Father cares about His children. To those who refuse to accept the will of God in their lives, the understanding of God’s knowledge should be frightening. Nothing escapes His notice, and He will not miss any moment of a person’s life. God knows your life. What does He see and hear?