Shall you not know it?
Isaiah 43:19 NKJV
God is asking us with Fatherly concern, imploring upon us to believe Him when He says all is well
Inasmuch as God is almighty and wise and creator and overseer of the whole universe, He has also walked among us as a human, in the form of Jesus Christ, and He knows us very well. He knows us on a personal level. He knows us on an experiential level.
This is a part of His divine plan, His grand design, to assure us that everything that is going on in this world is not only known to Him, but experienced by Him. He has been through it all. He is wise beyond understanding, and infinite in His intimate knowledge of us–what makes us cry, what makes us laugh, what makes us wonder, what makes us love.
And so this biblical phrase can be read as God asking us with Fatherly concern, imploring upon us to believe Him when He says all is well. Because He knows us, His children, and knows that we can be stubborn sometimes, or forgetful, or downright blurred.
Other versions of this verse straight up declare, “you shall know them (DRB),” “you shall see it now (GNT),” “now it begins to happen! (NET Bible).”
God is not just a faceless, ancient, provider deity. He is a God of love and compassion, and able to convey the very human, very relatable emotion of being an excited giver!
“Shall you not know it?” This is a beautifully rhetorically question. It is a passionate statement of delight by a God who is celebrating with us in advance of the victory that He has already prepared for us.
She’s good right? She’s good with the words.
I like this part: “infinite in His intimate knowledge of us–what makes us cry, what makes us laugh, what makes us wonder, what makes us love”.
Poetic. Beautiful.
Whatever happened to her.