Blog post November 12, 2026

Psalm 139:1–4: "O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar... Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether."

How do we reconcile the fact that God is all-knowing, with man's free will, and things being the way they are in the world.? This question came up in our bible study last night. If God already has it written down so to speak, do we really have a choice in the matter?

My point is that God knowing what will happen is not the same as God causing or forcing it to happen. In human terms, we can think of it as a person standing on a bridge high above where he is able to see the beginning and the end of a long parade at the same time, without controlling the marchers steps. God experiences all of time - past, present, and future - in a single eternal view. God sees our free choices not by forcing them, but simply by observing them as they happen within our timeline.

Does He have any influence in our choices? If we are His children of course He does. He has given us His Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth. But for free will to be meaningful, choices must have real weight. If God intervened to stop every bad choice or prevent every consequence before it happened, human agency would be just an illusion, and the world would function like a controlled script or a simulation rather than a realm of real moral responsibility.

Justice is a key factor in this conversation. Mankind experiences the results of others bad choices but we can be assured that nothing escapes God's watchful eye. There will be justice. There will be a reckoning day. For those who cry out "how long" O Lord will this injustice go on, they can be assured in God's perfect timing it will come to an end.

So God does indeed know our sitting down and our rising up. He knows the thoughts and intents of our hearts. He knows every choice we are going to make, good and bad. Yet in our free will we will continue to have days of choosing good and times where we are selfish and choose poorly. But praise be to God that He has given us a Helper. Not a Forcer, but a Helper.

Heavenly Father thank you for Your patient love again today. You know every poor self serving choice we are going to make, yet You still love us and are working within us to perfect us. It is a long process it seems, but thank you for the process. In Jesus name. AMEM AMEN

p.s. Thank you for those of you who prayed that our money would get released from WU. Praise God that it did. I sent just as I had before but this time the man released it. AMEN