If God is All Knowing...

"The alpha and the Omega"
"The beginning and the End, the all knowing God"

That's my mother's favourite intro to her prayers
She says it with so much conviction.

These bible verses confirm God's all knowing status
Isaiah 46:9-10
Isaiah 40:13-14
Psalm 139:4

But has it ever crossed your mind that if God is truly all knowing, Why then did he create man; knowing all the horrors that await and most importantly, knowing that he would have to sacrifice his very own son, Jesus?

Alot of folks see a question like this as an insult to the Almighty God.
"How dare you question God"?
I don't consider my curiosity insulting to God, I actually do believe God wants his children to ask him anything and everything that may worry them. God is to be feared, quite alright but he's loving and understanding and wants his children to understand him. It is the very reason he wants us to seek him, God wants to be understood.

"Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:"

So back to the subject matter...

"We are nothing but pencils in the hand of the creator"
Remember that Superstory outro?
Could that be all we really are in God's hands? Pencils?
Some pawn on the chessboard,to be moved wherever God pleases?
I don't believe so. Do You?
Here's what I think

I don't think we are just pencils in the hand of God or pawns on the chessboard. We are more than that and it's all thanks to Free-will; our freedom to be all that we want to.
Free-will is my reason for disregarding terms like Fate and Destiny. I believe that when God gave man Free will, he made whatever we want out of life in our own hands and we became responsible for our own lives.

THEN what about God's sovereignty?

There's God's sovereignty and Man's Free will. It's somwhat tricky.
Free-will expresses man's freedom to do whatever he chooses without constraint even to God's sovereign presence.
And, God's sovereignty encompasses God's absolute power to do and undo owing no explanations.
That's where it's tricky, it thus explicates that man and God share some measure of sovereignty but does it mean that God's sovereignty is limited by Man's freedom?
Could it mean that God held back some of his sovereign power so that man could fully exercise his life's choices and decide his own fate and that every evil perpetuated by man is simply man's choice?
Not at all.

God's sovereignty is absolute and man's freedom isn't quite as seen in the case of Jonah and the Big Fish.
Did God know of all will happen if he created man? Yes but could it all have been preventable? Yes.
If only Adam didn't fall for the chicanery of the serpent.
It thus means that, God, in giving Man free will, made him a part in deciding the outcome of the future.

God has always giving Man two choices with two ends...
He gave Adam the choices of eating or not eating from the tree and he choose the wrong one.
We all have been giving two choices. Serve me or don't. Whatever fate we meet, it's all in our hands.