But what did God consult in making these decisions? He consulted his own divine wisdom and this unfailingly gave him the right answer. God looks to the ends of the earth because, unlike us, his vision is not limited to a short horizon. He sees everything that is under the heavens and the idea is that he takes everything into account. For this reason his wisdom is said to be manifold because he works many things at once with a single act. Man has to adjust his plans just because he is limited in knowledge and later receives new information that he was not in possession of earlier. This presents some overriding consideration to him that forces him to adjust less than perfect plans. Who but God could appoint a weight for the wind and choose the size of the seas, the relative weights of the atoms, their chemical properties, the laws of physics, the size of the universe, the properties of light, electricity and magnetism, the timing of each event? Thanks be to God that he governs the universe and does not require us to do it.