Do you know what I’m thinking? Would you like it if I knew what you were thinking? Why not?

We all think private thoughts. Or do we? Check this out:

 

1 Corinthians 2:11-12 (ESV)
¹¹ For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
¹² Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.

 
So, apparently it’s not possible to know what a person is thinking unless you ARE THAT PERSON. It’s also apparently true that we can know what God is thinking. It’s also apparently true that God knows what we are thinking:

 

Psalm 139:1-2 (ESV)
¹ O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
² You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.

 
Seems like everyone knows what everyone else is thinking. How is this possible?

Just so you don’t miss the point being made here, consider this:

1.     You can’t know what a person is thinking unless you are that person

2.     We can know what God is thinking

3.     God knows what we are thinking

Can you draw any conclusions from this?

 

Here is another interesting statement from the Bible along the same lines:

 

 1 Corinthians 13:12 (ESV)
¹² For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

 
God knows all. 

At some point you will know all.

Can it be any other way?

 

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