O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
Psalm 139:1-7 (ESV)The tension between God's sovereignty and my choice is evident. God knows everything I will say and do before I ever say and do it, and I have a real option to say and do what I will, if He allows it.
The real issue is that God knows what is to come and has adjusted history to ensure that He wins in the end. For me, a mere man, it is difficult to comprehend what it must be like to know the future and to have already adjusted the events of history.
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