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There are some people who might know all about us,—our joys and our sorrows, our successes and our failures—and yet their knowledge means little to us or to them. But there is another to whom our joys bring happiness, our sorrows -grief, Our successes pleasure, and our failures pain, for they love us and care for us. Now, something like that, only infinitely higher, should be in our minds whenever we say, "God "God knows" means "God His love, His pity, His saving grace, are all bound up in His knowledge.
Let us think of this knowledge, this omniscience of God, in cne yr two connections, First of all in the connection to which our thoughts are directed in the chapter from which our text is taken. "He knoweth what is in the darkness" of the heart; He can read the thoughts of men; there are no secrets in your life or mine hidden from Him, Some-One has said, with very fine psychological insight, thay for each individual there are at least three entitles: there is the man as others picture him; there is the man as he pictures himself; and there is the real man known only to his Maker. He, and He alone, knows what is in the darkness.
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