Proverbs 25:2: It is God’s privilege to conceal things and the king’s privilege to discover them.

In Isaiah 55, God told Isaiah to prophecy to His people; He wanted them to know that their ways were not His ways, and neither were their thoughts His thoughts. He went on to tell His rebellious people that His ways and thoughts were higher than theirs. It’s not that God doesn’t ever want us to know His divine wisdom and plan. However, in this moment, He wanted to awaken His people to the sin that had blinded them; they were walking in their own will and not God’s. If God didn’t want us to know His wisdom, His plans, and experience His life, He wouldn’t have gone through the trouble of giving us the written Word or His Spirit.

God desires His people to seek His face and to learn His ways. We’re told in Hebrews 11,  that if we will seek God, He will reward us for our diligence in seeking after Him. The Word of God tells us that the Lord knows our thoughts from afar, and He also knows what we have need of before we ask it of Him. It’s difficult for the human mind to comprehend that God is so vast and loving, and that He can know our very thoughts and have intimate knowledge of each person’s needs. How is it that He knows so much about us, but we know very little about Him? Throughout the Word of God, God invites mankind to get acquainted with Him and to come to the saving knowledge of His Son.

Since mankind wrestles with the fallout from sin and feels unworthy, many people easily buy into the lie that they are unworthy to communicate with the God of creation. However, through the blood of Jesus, we have been made worthy to know the Father and to share our hearts with Him. Jesus has made it possible for all who believe in Him as the Christ to come before the Father and to be transformed in our minds. According to Philippians 2, we can now have the same mind(set) that Christ has and know the thoughts and the ways of God so that we might live in the way that pleases Him. It’s God’s good pleasure for us to know Him so that He can bless us. After all, we are the children of God.

Jesus tells us in John 10 that His sheep know His voice—another voice they won’t follow. If we can know and recognize God’s voice, then we can also communicate with the Lord and come to know Him just as He knows us. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 13 that we are to know even as we are known. This is the completion or the goal of God for His people . . . that we might know Him as the true God and Jesus Christ, His only-begotten  Son. You can know the ways of God, and you can think the thoughts of God today. Seek the Lord with your whole heart, and you will find Him.

1 Corinthians 2:12-16: We have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths. But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others. For, “Who can know the Lord’s thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him?” But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.  —submitted by Pastor Asa Dockery, US