Jesus knew what the scribes were thinking (Matt 9:4). He knows what we’re thinking too. He knows everything. There are no absences in the omniscience of God.

This is not true of any of his creatures – not even the angels, fallen or unfallen. We humans are of massively less intelligence than the angels. Pseudo-Dionysius says that “the intellectual power of the angel shines forth with the clear simplicity of divine concepts.” Their minds are close to God. Meanwhile, we tend to muddy things up.

Still, there are things even angels do not know. There is nothing that God does not know. All knowledge, in fact, comes from God. If you know a thing (and that’s as opposed to thinking that you know a thing), it is because God has given it to you to know. If God did not give the gift of knowledge, you do not know what you think you know. You merely believe it. And mere belief is not knowledge.

Everybody has an opinion. But not everybody has knowledge. The reason angels and men do not know everything is because God has not given us everything to know.

One of the things he does not give us, usually, is the knowledge of one another’s thoughts. People sometimes fall into the trap of thinking that they know what other people are thinking. And this so often leads to judgmentalism. How commonly we fail to give the benefit of the doubt. How commonly we fail to admit our own ignorance to ourselves. We do not know what other people are thinking. We cannot judge them. We do not know their hearts or intentions. But God does.

continue: Jesus knows the hearts of others and we do not.

BK does not stand for Byzantine Catholic. It stands for Burger King. At Burger King, you can have it your way. But not here. We are a Church that makes bold to teach with authority. Here, we cannot pick and choose what doctrine we will believe: To Teach with Authority

If we could pause for a moment in faith and trust, like the centurion did, knowing that the Lord already knows, that he already cares, that he is already inside the situation, perhaps we will hear the Lord say, as the centurion did, “I will come and heal.” Knowing to Whom We Speak in Prayer

There is a sadness in this day. The Paschal season is over – no longer do we sing “Christ is Risen.” There is a sadness in this day. The burial shroud is removed from the Holy Table and put away until next year. There is a sadness in this day. Our Lord has left us staring at the sky. But there is joy in this day. Christ our Lord has ascended into heaven amid shouts of joy and trumpet blasts. There is joy in this day. Not only are we saved by Christ’s incarnation, not only by his death and resurrection, but also by his ascension. God became Man so that Man might become God. God took on our human nature. He died in His human nature. He rose in His human nature. And now He ascends in His human nature. There is joy in this day. In the Ascension, our human natures go to heaven. It is only in Christ that we are united to God and it is only in Christ’s ascension that our humanity has hope of heaven. Sadness & Joy

The wise man is willing to be thought a fool for the sake of the truth, who is the Lord. The Bridegroom is coming in the middle of the night.