God's Awesome Knowledge and Abilities

Have you ever wondered how God knows everything ? He knows our thoughts before we think them, He knows everything about us. How does He do this, how does He have the ability to listen to and think about billions and billions of things at any moment in time? We would like to see proof sometimes of how He is able to do all these amazing things. That proof is all around us.

Psalm 139 and Luke 12:7 talks of God's ability to know everything about us even before we are born. The hairs on our heads are even numbered. We can not comprehend how God can do this because we as human beings do not have the ability to know everything.

Working in education, I have come across some pretty amazing things that students can do. Some of the most amazing things I have seen actually have come from autistic children. If you have seen the movie 'Rainman', you know that the autistic character in the movie has some very amazing abilities. I believe there is a scene where several toothpicks or matches are dropped and Dustin Hoffman's character is able to immediately tell the exact number of them. Can you do that? Some autistic people can, and God can.

Autistic children have been able to memorize books, movies, commercials, songs, rhymes, and many other things by only being exposed to them a few times. I, for one, can not do this. I can not count hundreds of objects at a glance. It would take me many tries to memorize songs or rhymes. Yet, some autistic people can do some of these amazing things without even trying to.

I think that through autistic people God is giving us a glimpse of some of His abilities. It is hard for us to comprehend God's amazing abilities. I think that there are examples all around us of proof of His amazing abilities and autism is just one of them.

So. the next time you see or here of an autistic person doing an incomprehensible thing, think of it as being just a microscopic glimpse of the awesome power of God.

CB