God’s Foreknowledge

 

 

Did you always know

What you now know?

If every iota of it

Please show!

 

Do you now know

What you will know?

Well, if you already do,

How is this so?

 

Foreknowledge is knowing

Past, present and future,

Every iota of it:

The total picture.

 

Not just a part of it

But the entire volume,

Very unlike any human being

Who must assume.

 

So, I ask again,

Did you always know

What you now know?

Please show!

 

Do you now know

All you will ever know?

Well, if you already do

How is this so?

 

But God does:

Both future and past

And He is the only one

In His unique class.

 

The unit set

They would say in Math:

The only one to be found

In such a class.

 

This is not dumb!

Someone has to be

And He has to be omnipotent

To create all we see.

 

Infinite knowledge

With wisdom to boot

With never ever an occasion

To utter, “Oh, shoot!”

 

A mild admission

Something is wrong

But with the Almighty God

This does not belong.

 

 

Not a single mistake

Has God ever made,

It is beings with choice

That always have failed.

 

Lucifer in heaven

Adam and Eve on earth,

Both yearning to satisfy

Their lustful thirst.

 

But God is love

And love permits choice,

That is, to obey or disobey

The lover’s voice.

 

Love is not withheld

By what can happen

And neither was God’s love

When Satan threatened.

 

 

 

God knows

What He always knew,

Nothing is hidden from Him

All’s within His view.

 

So, if you know

What you always knew

Then you would have to be God-

That’s a logical view.

 

But only God knows

What He always knew,

Therefore, let all men be liars

And let God be true.

 

No knowledge

Outside of God’s knowledge,

Foreknowledge in a narrow sense

Is God-given knowledge.

 

Stewart Russell © May 15, 2024

 

“The Called”

 

 

What am I called to be?

How can I know?

You are called to be a Christian,

That’s for sure!

 

By whom am I called?

Is it the church?

The church is not a person,

Ouch, that hurts!

 

What am I called to do?

It’s not the same question,

To be and to do are not the same

By my comprehension.

 

Don’t mix up the two!

They are quite distinct,

You should never get drawn in

Before you think!

 

So, it is called to be:

Let’s get right back there,

We’ll get through this somehow

Don’t you fear!

 

Go to Romans chapter 8!

Start at verse 28

And if you are “the called”,

Therein is your fate.

 

It is not about doing,

But rather, it is a call to be

And it is clearly delineated

For you and for me.

 

 

Called according to purpose

The purpose of God,

Note the definite article:

It is “the called”.

 

That makes it a noun

Though the verb is implied:

What “the called” does

Is what the "to be" decides.

 

Whom God did foreknow

God also did predestinate:

Conformity to Christ’s image

Is the believer’s estate.

 

By the believer I mean

Any of the “born-again”:

Not them of physical birth,

But of the spiritual strain.

 

Born of the Holy Spirit

And indwelt by the same,

This is the “called to be”:

Aka born-again!

 

 

Whom He also did predestinate

Them God also called:

And these He justified

But this is not all…

 

For whom God justified,

Them He also glorified:

In His perfect foreknowledge

God did decide.

 

I choose to say no more

Than these verses say,

I dare not let my reasoning

Get in the way.

 

God’s knowledge is infallible

Whereas mine is flawed

I can only say what He says

Concerning “the called”.

 

“Called to be” is first

And determines what to do:

The fruit evidences “the called”

If in me and you.

 

Stewart Russell © October 26, 2022