Man's Inhumanity to Man
by Robert Burns
Many and sharp the
numerous ills
Inwoven with our frame;
More pointed still, we make ourselves
Regret, remorse and shame;
And man, whose heaven-erected face
The smiles of love adorn,
Man's inhumanity to man,
Makes countless thousands mourn. *
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https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/mans-inhumanity-man
Have you ever wondered what God is like? In the Holy Bible, we find verse after verse telling us about God. From these verses, theologians have deduced a number of the attributes of God; characteristics that only God can have. Two of these attributes are omniscience and omnipresence. That means that God knows everything and that He is everywhere.
God knows everything that has happened, everything that is happening, and everything that is ever going to happen. We humans are only now beginning to understand the vastness of the universe and the complexities of the human brain. God created them both, and He knows everything about them. He knows everything we have done, and everything we will do. Nothing is hidden from Him.
As the saying goes, “You can run, but you can’t hide.” God is everywhere - at the same time. You can’t see God, but you know He is there. If you are open to Him, you can feel His presence. If you are a believer, and you have the Holy Spirit living in you, then you know when the sin you have committed has grieved the Spirit. You know when you have broken fellowship with God. You can feel it. I know from experience that there is no other form loneliness that equals it. Fortunately, we can be restored to fellowship with God if we repent, confess our sins to Him, and believe in His forgiveness. (1John 1:9)
Psalm 139 clearly points to the omniscience and omnipresence of God:
Psalm 139
(A Psalm of David)
O Lord, You
have searched me and known me.
You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off.
You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O Lord, You know
it altogether.
You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain it.
Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,”
Even the night shall be light about me;
Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both
alike to You.
For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully
made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the
earth.
Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with You.
Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God!
Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.
For they speak against You wickedly;
Your enemies take Your name in vain.
Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate You?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
I hate them with perfect hatred;
I count them my enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting. (NKJV) *
* https://biblehub.com/nkjv/psalms/139.htm
