Hilary Yancey

“We cannot do, say, think, be anything but what God has already seen, already ordained, already determined. We think in terms of past, and present, and future, and God contains them all in his knowledge, a bucket of truths about us. We think, "God already knows," and we often translate this as, "God already made it to be the case that..." or "God already did." At least, we think, It can't be anything except this.

But I think God's foreknowledge might be better understood as an action. God foreknows because he is in all the places where we will go, because he stands next to us and near us before and after we get there. He hovers over and in and through time, and here the descriptions feel thin, unable to pin down the truth. God stands where we will stand. God moves where we will move. God sees what we do not yet, but will someday see.”
― Hilary Yancey, Forgiving God: A Story of Faith