14. What ought we to do, since God is eternal and unchangeable?
We ought to serve and love Him for ever and ever.
'Thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever' (Ps. lxxii. 26).
15. What means 'God is omnipresent'?
God is omnipresent means that He is everywhere: in Heaven, on earth, and in all places.
'Do not I fill Heaven and earth? saith the Lord' (Jer. xxiii. 24). 'God is not far from every one of us; for in Him we live, and move, and are' (Acts xvii. 27, 28). Although God fills all space, nevertheless He is everywhere entire and perfect, and encompassed by no space; for He is immense.
16. What means 'God is all-knowing'?
God is all-knowing means that He knows all things perfectly and from all eternity; He knows all things past, present, and to come, even our most secret thoughts.
' The eyes of the Lord are far brighter than the sun, beholding round about all the ways of men, and the bottom of the deep, and looking into the hearts of men, into the most hidden parts; for all things were known to the Lord God before they were created: so also after they were perfected He beholdeth all things' (Ecclus. xxiii. 28, 29). See the whole Psalm cxxxviii. — Examples: Predictions of Christ and of the Prophets.
17. What benefit do we derive from the frequent remembrance of God's omnipresence and omniscience?
1. It keeps us everywhere, even in secret, from evil, and incites us to good; and 2. It gives us courage and consolation in all difficulties and troubles.
1. 'It is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord' (Dan. xiii. 23), 'That thy alms may be in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret will repay thee' (Matt. vi. 4). 2. 'Though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for Thou art with me' (Ps. xxii. 4). 'Behold my witness is in Heaven, and He that knoweth my conscience is on high' (Job xvi. 20).
18. What means 'God is all-wise'?
God is all-wise means that He knows how to dispose all things in the best manner, in order to attain His end.
