Beyond Thinking

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the Lord,  Isaiah 1:18a  NKJV Reason – Just to be clear, the verse from Isaiah is not an invitation to enter into cognitive cooperation with God.  The Hebrew verb is yākaḥ, and a better translation might be “let us debate,” or “let us argue (as in a court of…

The Size of Knowing

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!  Psalm 139:17  NASB Vast– David is the poet who looked up to the heavens and declared, “What is man that You take thought of him, and the son of man that You care for him?”  Nevertheless, David insists that God created Man…

Thought Police

You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar.  Psalm 139:2  NASB Thought– God knows it all, right?  He knows every thought you have, every fleeting desire, every inclination, every unvoiced declaration.  We all agree.  God knows us—perhaps better than we know ourselves.  After all, He is the omniscient external observer in…