Thursday, February 8, 2007
It's a Mystery...
One of the greatest mysteries of God is that God is a mystery. Thomas Torrance writes of John Calvin who said that God is simply a mystery - one to be adored. What does this mean, though? How are we to go about thinking of a God that is a 'mystery?' How should we even interpret 'mystery?' One author suggests that mystery is not a lack of understanding but, instead, a presence of more knowledge than can be comprehended. So, if we are to understand and comprehend a God beyond comprehension, then I suggest that we begin inquiring into the one source that revealed God wholly, suprememly, and completely - Jesus Christ. Jesus is the manifestation, the incarnation, of the Living God in Heaven. Our God is not just a Being or a Spirit existing in an alternate reality. However, our God is an active and moving God involved in the very lives and actions of creation. God is moved by humanity and responds to our suffering. We know this because God entered the world in the form of a human being to present Godself, a formal introduction, to humanity. And though Jesus Christ was human, he must be very God because only God can reveal Godself completely, not a man. All of this is to say that mystery is real. And so is Jesus Christ. And to study the words of Jesus Christ is to acquaint ourselves with the God of the UNIVERSE, of the stars in the night sky, of humanity, of the planets, of the animals, of the roses on the bush, of the clouds against the blue, of the air we breathe, of the whales in the oceans, of the birds in the air, of you, of me, of everything. We must not be fearful of the unknown - of the mystery - but we must walk toward the only source of life that will fulfill us and coplete us. We must walk toward the depths and mysteries of our living God. So, I beg the question...what barriers prevent you from engaging with mystery? And how can you begin to bring down the barrier so that you might embrace the fear and depth of God? May you begin to know and love and explore this mystery, and may you continue with passion the journey that our Mysterious God has set before you.
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The barriers I have are self created. My cutting, the darkness I surround myself in, and the constant hope and longing for the light in which I deny myself.
Blah..I suck at this kind of thing. The only thing I can do is to keep pushing and keep walking towards him despite all the problems I'm presentin gmyself with on the way.
Well, the walls created by ourselves are definitely a big issue. In fact they are the only issue. The outside world only influences our engagement with mystery if we let it. We allow things to block our paths. We could be reading more scripture and learning more of his teachings if we would decide to put down the remote, or the game controller, or even in some ways the computer. I think sometimes even reading books from spiritual authors can also cause us to put up walls. We dig so deep into them and we lose the fcat that we should be reading the best book ever written, but we feel that since we are reading these "spirit filled" books we are ok. I mean, I think theya re good for us, but I think it is dangerous when we forget about what really contains the mystery and studying it for ourselves and let others do the investigation for us. I hope that makes sense.
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