It is part of God’s nature to know all things. We call this quality omniscience. God knows everything. There is nothing he does not know. Jesus once said that the Father’s knowledge is so total that he even knows when a single bird falls out of the sky and he knows the number of hairs we have on our head. In the case of some of us it is easier for him to keep track of that last statistic.

That God knows how much hair we have is just one indication of how intimately he knows each one of us. In Hebrews we read that "no creature is hidden to him but all are open and laid bare to his eyes" (Hebrews 4:13). Job confessed that "God’s eyes are upon the ways of a man and he sees all his steps" (Job 31:21). God’s knowledge of us is so perfect, Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, that he knows al…