Serious - God's Mental Power

So, this past Sunday we had a “My Dad is Stronger than Your Dad” discussion of sorts where we compared God’s Power to our own power. There wasn’t much time to really cover the vastness of God’s power, but there’s one area I REALLY wanted to mention but we didn’t have time. So, I’d like to take a moment here to cover it. I want to explain the extreme Mental Power that God has. We may at times get to thinking that we are very intelligent because we have discovered and explained so much through science and philosophy. But God has us immensely beat when it comes to Mental Power.
Job 37:16 says that God is the one “who is perfect in knowledge” and I John 3:20 goes so far to say that God “knows everything”. To fully see the Seriously Ridiculousness of this lets unpack this statement that “God Knows Everything”. A good definition to describe God’s mental power is: God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act. So what does that fully entail?
To say that God knows all things actual means that He knows all things that exist and all things that happen. He knows the past, He knows the future, and He knows every single detail of all our lives and all the lives of those dead and not yet born.
He also knows all things possible. If God fully knows Himself, he knows everything he is able to do, which includes all things that are possible. God has made an incredibly complex and varied universe. But there are thousands upon thousands of other variations or kinds of things that God could have created but did not. God’s infinite knowledge includes detailed knowledge of what each of those possible creations would have been like and what would have happened in each of them!
Our definition of God’s metal power also speaks of God knowing everything in one “simple act”. This means that God is always fully aware of everything. If He should wish to tell us the number of grains of sand on the seashore, he would have to count them all quickly like some kind of giant computer, nor would he have to call the number to mind because it was something He had not thought about for a long time. Rather, he knows all things at once. All of these facts and possibilities and details and other things He knows are always fully present in His consciousness. He does not have to reason or ponder carefully before He answers, because He knows all from beginning to end, and he never learns and never forgets anything.
I could go on, but I think you’re probably beginning to get the picture. God’s Mental Power is Seriously Ridiculous.

In Christ,
Ryan Fillinger
Fusion Church
Fountain, CO