Day 93: A Cup Of Mystery, If You Please!
Read: Romans 16:25 - 27
I like a good mystery. I like a good mystery that from the first page
to last keeps you in suspense. I love a mystery where there is an
enticingly slow build up from the introduction of the characters, the scene
of the crime described with utmost detail with emotion and great
passion. There is the character development, the step by step
interviewing of each of the potential suspects, the revelation of all the subtle hints to the upcoming twists in the plot. The drum beats faster and faster as the plot gets
ever thicker with all the suspense being built up. Page after page it
continues then just as you get to the final pages when you are sure you
have solved it - drum roll - The Butler did it!!!
Mysteries
about God are another matter. I think this is because of two reasons.
First people will tell me even before you start reading the book you
know the answer - It was God all the time - beginning to end, Alpha to
Omega, first page to the last page. Now what fun is the mystery if you
already know how it is all going to turn out? So there is the second
reason - there is a little voice going around inside of my head that is saying if the mystery is already solved, that I should know and understand all there is to know about the author. After all it is the only possible mystery
that is solvable. But this is God. So I obsess over studying the Bible
trying to solve what is unsolvable.
But I am wasting my time,
but I do not care about that. God will remain the eternal mystery. After
all, who can know or comprehend the mind of one who created us in His
image and we are all preciously unique. Can we understand all there us
to know every single person that is alive today? There is simply not
enough time in eternity to accomplish it. Personally I believe that God
loves being the greatest of all mysteries. The greatest mysteries ever
written entice us to read them, get to know all the characters, study
them, become them, identify with them, model our lives to try and live
like them.
Paul wrote to all believers: 'Now to God who is able
to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus
Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret
for long ages but is now disclosed, and through the prophetic writings
is made known to all the Gentiles, according to the command of the
eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith— to the only wise
God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory for ever! Amen. (Romans
16:25 - 26)
I have called these "fascinating words" because they speak of the whole God mystery as if it had been moving forward from the beginning of human history,
all the while it remains veiled, hidden, obscured from human
understanding. What is so fascinating is that I can finally stop the impossible task of trying to figure it all out. What I know, what any of us will ever know; will be individual to each of us. God will
always uniquely strengthen us according to what needs we have. He will
reveal the right portion of His great mystery to each of us at the exact
moment we need that revelation in life. And that is an absolute relief for me, with assurance, to be able to hold onto all the possibilities God has in store for all who love the greatest of all mysteries.
My personal prayer for each of you today is as Paul prayed for the
believers all over the known world: 'Now to God who is able to
strengthen you ....... according to the revelation of the mystery that
was kept secret but is now disclosed ....... according to the command
the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith - to the only
wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory for ever! Amen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmA9fPEpe4
Indescribable - Chris Tomlin (Music Video With Lyrics)
www.youtube.com
Indescibalble by Chris tomlin music video with lyrics
Read: Romans 16:25 - 27
I like a good mystery. I like a good mystery that from the first page to last keeps you in suspense. I love a mystery where there is an enticingly slow build up from the introduction of the characters, the scene of the crime described with utmost detail with emotion and great passion. There is the character development, the step by step interviewing of each of the potential suspects, the revelation of all the subtle hints to the upcoming twists in the plot. The drum beats faster and faster as the plot gets ever thicker with all the suspense being built up. Page after page it continues then just as you get to the final pages when you are sure you have solved it - drum roll - The Butler did it!!!
Mysteries about God are another matter. I think this is because of two reasons. First people will tell me even before you start reading the book you know the answer - It was God all the time - beginning to end, Alpha to Omega, first page to the last page. Now what fun is the mystery if you already know how it is all going to turn out? So there is the second reason - there is a little voice going around inside of my head that is saying if the mystery is already solved, that I should know and understand all there is to know about the author. After all it is the only possible mystery that is solvable. But this is God. So I obsess over studying the Bible trying to solve what is unsolvable.
But I am wasting my time, but I do not care about that. God will remain the eternal mystery. After all, who can know or comprehend the mind of one who created us in His image and we are all preciously unique. Can we understand all there us to know every single person that is alive today? There is simply not enough time in eternity to accomplish it. Personally I believe that God loves being the greatest of all mysteries. The greatest mysteries ever written entice us to read them, get to know all the characters, study them, become them, identify with them, model our lives to try and live like them.
Paul wrote to all believers: 'Now to God who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but is now disclosed, and through the prophetic writings is made known to all the Gentiles, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith— to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory for ever! Amen. (Romans 16:25 - 26)
I have called these "fascinating words" because they speak of the whole God mystery as if it had been moving forward from the beginning of human history, all the while it remains veiled, hidden, obscured from human understanding. What is so fascinating is that I can finally stop the impossible task of trying to figure it all out. What I know, what any of us will ever know; will be individual to each of us. God will always uniquely strengthen us according to what needs we have. He will reveal the right portion of His great mystery to each of us at the exact moment we need that revelation in life. And that is an absolute relief for me, with assurance, to be able to hold onto all the possibilities God has in store for all who love the greatest of all mysteries.
My personal prayer for each of you today is as Paul prayed for the believers all over the known world: 'Now to God who is able to strengthen you ....... according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret but is now disclosed ....... according to the command the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith - to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory for ever! Amen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmA9fPEpe4
Indescribable - Chris Tomlin (Music Video With Lyrics)
www.youtube.com
Indescibalble by Chris tomlin music video with lyrics
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