Dear Friends, I want to invite you today to consider mystery.
(If you’re of my generation you may be hearing in your mind a song playing as I say this; ‘It's a mystery, oh, it's a mystery, I'm still searching for a clue, It's a mystery to me’).
Life is mysterious and there is much we will fail to ever fully grasp, comprehend, or sadly come to complete peace over, and these present times expose this in all our lives.
Why do certain things happen? Why don’t other things happen? What is our place in all this? And the inevitable questions we all grapple with concerning God; His nature, how we know Him, what HE wants for us and how do we love Him.
We each walk with questions, uncertainties, challenges and ambiguities. Everyone carries scars from their sufferings, longings, hopes and desires that may not be fulfilled in line with their imaginings. And at different times we will walk closely with those whose pain we cannot alleviate in the way we desire.
Following Jesus is an invitation into a relationship that contains mystery, just as being born is the beginning of a lifelong adventure full of questions, many that appear unanswerable.
This is why we are continuously offered ‘peace that surpasses understanding’ and ‘love greater than knowledge’, all from a God who promises to ‘quiet us with His love’ as HE ‘makes us lie down’.
There is so much we can’t control, change, bring under our influence or that can seem insurmountable, but we are always offered the opportunity to continue to receive the greatest gift of all; the beautiful mystery of relationship with God through Jesus.
And whilst this may not ever bring us all the answers or outcomes we seek the trajectory of the relationship is always love, HIS incomparable, outrageously gracious, unfailing, unending, ever expanding love.
In this we can be encouraged, united, ‘rich’ and continue to grow in our intimate knowledge of Jesus; who holds treasures for all that can reveal whatever He needs to give us in whatever season or situation we find ourselves in.
My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, [3] in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Colossians 2:2-3 NIV)
Wherever you find yourself today, whatever you’re facing, however you’re feeling about life, I pray you will know again that you are loved, you are seen, you are known and HE offers you the wondrous mystery of Himself.
Peace
Jason