Better Than We Know Ourselves

Several times recently, I've mentioned that God knows us better than we know ourselves, and that got me thinking as to why that might be true. The easy answer is that God is omniscient and we are not. The reason God knows us better than we do may be because God knows everything, including everything there is to know about us, and we don't.

Another easy answer is that God has known us longer than we have known ourselves. The longer you know a person, the better you get to know them, and God has known us since before we were born. Meanwhile, the veil of forgetfulness has made us forget everything from before we were born, including everything we may have learned about ourselves up to that point, and our earliest childhood memories take place probably long after we were born, and our memory is probably patchy, at best, so there are tremendous gaps in our knowledge about ourselves.

But God isn't the only being who has known us since before we passed through the veil. Satan also, for that reason alone, knows us better than we know ourselves, but I don't think he knows us as well as God knows us, and there are a number of possible reasons for that as well. For example, I'm sure Satan knew us before we were born, but I'm not sure how much attention he was paying to us. As I understand it, he had bigger fish to fry. God, on the other hand, would have taken the time to get to know each and every one of His children before sending them to Earth. And that's assuming that He didn't already know us perfectly through his omniscience, which Satan doesn't have. Satan may know us better than we know ourselves, but I'm sure that God knows us even better than that.

So, if you have a question about yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your gifts, or your role in the universe, God would be the right person to ask about all that. God knows thing about us that we don't yet know about ourselves, but He is willing to teach us as long as we are willing to ask and listen. It's slightly unsettling to know that there are beings in the universe who know me better than I know myself, but when He who knows me best is willing to share His information with me, I guess I can't complain. God knowing me better than I know myself is a temporary truth. As I come to know myself, and as the veil is removed, I can eventually know myself about as well as God knows me, which is far better than I know myself now. For one reason or another, God currently knows us better than we know ourselves, but as we get to know ourselves, we can eventually come to know ourselves just as well as God does.