God is Omniscient
The next of the "omni" words describing God is omniscient. To say that God is omniscient isn't just to say that He knows a lot of information, but rather to say that He possesses all knowledge and all wisdom as well. God is not just a big supercomputer with lots of memory, but He not only knows all things but that He thoroughly understands all of the implications and nuances and the wise uses of the knowledge that He possesses as well. God is in fact a know-it-all, but in a good way. God also possesses what we would call foreknowledge, which for HIm is just knowledge. Think about that one. At the moment God dictated the prophecies to the prophets about Jesus and the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, in God's world, they were happening. This is another one of those examples of the multi-dimensionality of God. He is on a plane of existence that includes all times and all places, and is yet above and beyond them both. "Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”(Rom. 11:33-34)
God is fully aware of the positions of all of the stars in all of the galaxies, and He is aware of every situation you are in and how you feel about it, and He is concerned for you in all of this. When Hagar, who was the mother of Ishmael, was cast out by Sarah, Abraham's wife, God found her and her child and saved them from perishing in the desert. She responded by saying, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.” For even though Ishmael was not the chosen son to fulfill the promises God made to Abraham, God did watch over and care him and his mother. In the story of the Exodus God makes it clear that He had compassion on his people and that He cared about their suffering. In Exodus 3:7 it says, "The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering." Jesus also carried a message that included one of mercy, compassion, and concern. He said, "Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered(Mat. 10:29-30). God also is able to understand the depths of the human heart and will. In 1Kings 8:39, in the middle of the prayer of dedication of the temple, is this statement, "Forgive and act; deal with each man according to all he does, since you know his heart (for you alone know the hearts of all men)." And when Peter was explaining to the Jewish believers that God had given His Spirit to Gentiles as well, he said, "God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us(Acts 15:8)."
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