The All Knowing God

2 Chronicles 7

I can never fully comprehend the omnipotence of God. We know that He is unbounded by time and knows the beginning and the end. We know the He IS "the beginning" and "the end". But reconciling what we know about God with reality is very hard to do. This chapter reminds me of this quality of God. He already knows the history of Israel at the time of this awesome temple dedication. He knows the very end of Israel -- something we have yet to witness. There are so many lessons for us in this chapter about sanctification, God's holiness, etc. There is also, of course, a lot to learn from the much-quoted 14th verse. Yet, at this reading it is the all-knowing God that I find myself contemplating.

The other thought I had was once again look at the scope of this event. It lasted for several days and oh the sheer number of sacrifice! Also look at the people!! They were spread out all over the land . . .

Verse 8 -- "...a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt."

This had to be much like one of the big gatherings at the mall in Washington DC (such as in 1963 when Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. Can you imagine it? What a sight it must have been!