Everyone likes a mystery. Do you?
Here’s one:
Ephesians 5:31-32 (ESV)
31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
If you have ever been in church then I’m sure you’ve heard the terms “body of Christ”, “bride of Christ”, etc. Suppose this “churchy” talk is really code for something profound. What would that be?
Maybe this:
Ephesians 4:4-6 (ESV)
4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—
5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Perhaps we (all God’s children) and Jesus are all ontologically related - which is a fancy way of saying we are all of the same stuff - two sides of the same coin. Basically this:
Hebrews 2:11 (ESV)
11 For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source (are all of one). That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
So, brother or sister, maybe there is more to you than you think?
It’s possible isn’t it?
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Do you know what I’m thinking? Would you like it if I knew what you were thinking? Why not?
We all think private thoughts. Or do we? Check this out:
1 Corinthians 2:11-12 (ESV)
11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
So, apparently it’s not possible to know what a person is thinking unless you ARE THAT PERSON. It’s also apparently true that we can know what God is thinking. It’s also apparently true that God knows what we are thinking:
Psalm 139:1-2 (ESV)
1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
Seems like everyone knows what everyone else is thinking. How is this possible?
Just so you don’t miss the point being made here, consider this:
1. You can’t know what a person is thinking unless you are that person
2. We can know what God is thinking
3. God knows what we are thinking
Can you draw any conclusions from this?
Here is another interesting statement from the Bible along the same lines:
1 Corinthians 13:12 (ESV)
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
God knows all.
At some point you will know all.
Can it be any other way?
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The Bible has some interesting things to say about how we exist. It seems funny to me that more is not made of verses like these:
Acts 17:28 (ESV)
28 for “ ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “ ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
Colossians 1:17 (ESV)
17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Psalm 139:7-8 (ESV)
7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
Isaiah 45:6 (ESV)
6 that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the Lord, and there is no other.
Of course these are just a sample of many that basically make the same point. And the point is?
Well, ultimately that God is really all there ever was, is, or will be.
Let me say that again just so you don’t miss the point.
God is all there ever was, is, or will be.
Think about it.
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