The Knowledge of God

I'm moving right along in A. W. Pink's The Attributes of God book, albeit rather slowly. I'm up to Chapter 3 now. There is just so much to take in that I don't want to read it too quickly.

"God is omniscient. He knows everything: everything possible, everything actual; all events, all creatures, God the past, the present and the future. He is perfectly acquainted with every detail in the life of every being in heaven, in earth and in hell. "He knoweth what is in the darkness" (Dan. 2:22). Nothing escapes His notice, nothing can be hidden from Him, nothing is forgotten by Him. Well may we say with the Psalmist, "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it" (Ps. 139:6). His knowledge is perfect. He never errs, never changes, never overlooks anything. "Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do" (Heb. 4:13). Yes, such is the God with whom "we have to do!"

The definition from Webster's 1828 dictionary of omniscience is this:

Omniscience
OMNIS'CIENCE,

OMNIS'CIENCY, n. [L. omnis, all, and scientia, knowledge.]

The quality of knowing all things at once; universal knowledge; knowledge unbounded or infinite. Omniscience is an attribute peculiar to God.

That definition alone tells me that I am not God, nor will I ever be. I may become like Christ, but I am not Him, and will never have His attributes. Nor will I become fully like Him in this world. He was sinless, I am not, and never will be. That can be an overwhelming thought, that I will never be completely sinless, but what does encourage me is to know that it is God who works in me, both to will and to do of His good pleasure (Philippians 1:6).

It's a comfort to me to know that everything that has happened in my life up until now was known by Him because He ordained every single event in my life. I now see the world, and the events in my life, through new eyes because of this attribute. God is still on His throne, and is still ruling the world, and there is nothing to fear.