God Knows What We Cannot Yet Comprehend

"The Lord God of gods, He knoweth." — Elohim [God] knows: It is a great satisfaction when we feel that there is one Being who knows everything. After some great perplexity, some dark hour, or some mysterious visitation, when there seemed to be no clue to an event and not a spark of illumination about it, it is a blessed relief to mind and soul when we feel that somebody can understand it, can thoroughly sift it, and will in good time bring out its illuminated side and reveal the spiritual diamonds so long concealed in darkness, sorrow, and grief.

God knows the uses of things—why the world was made, why we were made, the meaning of the events that greet us, what lessons they convey, what benedictions they unfold, what promises they hold out. Can anything be more cheering than this fact? Is it strange that the Maker should be familiar with what He has made, that the Architect should understand all about His building, that the Creator should comprehend what He has produced?

Consider: Would it not be wonderful if Mozart and Beethoven did not understand their own music, or if Powers stood before his statue dumb as an idiot, unable to account for its beauty, or if Rubens stared at his own picture with vacant gaze? Then how natural that the Great Musician of earth and heaven should explain all the grand chorus of the ages, that the Holy Sculptor of all time should describe every particular of His work, that the Great Painter of both worlds should, with keen wisdom, delight in His own magnificent paintings. We do not know everything, but God knows, and in His revelation we find both knowledge and hope.