Omniscient

​Our brains manage emotions, thoughts, memories (sensory, short and long-term), touch, vision, breathing patterns, and all the procedures that control our bodies.[1]  Scientists calculate the human brain storage capacity by gauging the connections between brain cells and decoding that number into bytes and computer memory units.  “A single byte comprises 8 bits, and the human brain can store more than one quadrillion bytes of data – a petabyte.”[2] Our brain’s memory capacity is equal to 2.5 petabytes of memory capacity. A “petabyte” translates into 1024 terabytes or a million gigabytes. An average adult brain can accumulate the equivalent of 2.5 million gigabytes of memory.  ​

A myth is circulating that we only use ten percent of our brains.  In reality, most of our brain is active to some degree.[3] Our brains constitute the most complicated organ ever created “with 100 billion nerve cells and many more contact points between them,” providing us with capabilities that “no supercomputer can match to this day.”[4] 
 
Meditation
Psalm 147:5—Our Lord is great, vast in power; His understanding is infinite.
 
We may be able to assess the human brain’s capacity, but try and fathom the wisdom of God, who created us!  We are partly-knowing, God is all-knowing. One of my West Point classmates, Dan, has a photographic memory.  It astounds me what he can process and recall. You have probably seen videos of gifted children who can solve complex math equations. As impressive as human brains are, they are still limited. God’s “Divine omniscience means that at every moment of the divine life God knows all that is knowable at that given moment . . . God’s knowledge processes with every new decision and action in the world.”[5]

Knowing this about God should encourage us that He is not caught unaware by our circumstances, and fully understands what we do not. A million people can pray around the world simultaneously and God can hear, process, and respond if He so chooses.

God’s omniscience should also humble us. We can easily become full of ourselves and our thinking. Yet, our minds do not understand everything. We are always in need of learning. This is why it is so wise to seek God’s wisdom. “Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him” (James 1:5).

The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 11:33, “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments and untraceable His ways!” Something to think about . . . in reveration!
 
Inspiration
“The greatest idea that we can frame of God is when we conceive Him to be a Being of infinite love and goodness, using an infinite wisdom and power for the common good and happiness of all His creatures.”—William Law in A Serious Call To A Devout & Holy Life
 
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Ecclesiastes 12:10-The Teacher sought to find delightful sayings and to accurately write words of truth.  (Holman CSB)
 
[1] https://www.medanta.org/patient-education-blog/what-is-the-memory-capacity-of-a-human-brain
[2] Ibid
[3] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321060#the-10-percent-myth
[4] https://www.mpg.de/brain
[5] Erickson, M. (1985). Christian Theology. Baker Book House, p. 280