Mystery of His Will

“…having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation on the fullness of the times He might gather in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth-in Him.” Eph 1:9-10




His desire is to bring us into intimate understanding of who He is. Not just a wish list item, but a thing that brings Him great pleasure. No one Has seen God, but that is not the plan, in Christ we are being made into those who can see God in every way possible. This hidden mystery is being revealed in Christ. In this He is deriving pleasure. Are you as pleased to be with Him like He is pleased to be with you? To what extent are you willing to go to receive His love? We should be at least as willing to go as far as He went, and He went all the way through death.

In Jesus, He gave up all of His splendor and majesty to take on the form of a man (our form) in order to fully redeem us from the power of death, the grip of sin and the curse of the law (the law being a curse because none could keep it). Now we are at the crossroads and we ask ourselves, do I live for myself or do I live for another; namely Him who died for us.

We fight and bicker over the nature and existence of God through our different religions and sciences and yet all these are founded upon our finite understanding. Whether or not we can prove God does nothing to add to or detract from the truth of His existence, any more that counting proves the validity of our mathematics. What we can prove by our own observation is only provable in our own imaginations and though we call it fact, it is only fact in the sense of our experience and knowledge but cannot be weighed against what is yet unknown.

The question is not whether or not God exists, but whether or not our observations are based on all knowledge. We can all readily admit that no man has attained to all knowledge and therefore we must agree that nothing we know by understanding can be considered absolute, but only clues, glimpses into what is. If we can agree that our knowledge is an imperfect foundation for our knowledge (just because something is our only tool does not make it the right tool) then we can allow ourselves to jump off of the “concrete” diving board into the vast realm of the unknown. This is the essence of mystery, and Paul is claiming that Jesus is the key to this mystery of God and a glimpse of His plan to bring the invisible unknowable into the realm of the observable natural elements.

We still don’t know how it all plays out, but we do know that in Christ we are safe, and this we know by faith and not by knowledge. It then becomes an issue of trust. Can we truly give ourselves to trust in the validity of a God that reveals Himself in pieces through broken people, a God who claims to have come in the form of a man as Jesus and rose from the dead, a God who is going to return to the earth a second time to set up His throne? I do. Faith is His marriage vow, I DO, LORD, And I DO!