All things are possible with God. Nothing is possible with man. This is a great life mystery. How deep, high, wide, and long it is! No one understands and fathoms its dimensions in full.
“Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
‘Who has
known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?’
‘Who has
ever given to God,
that God should repay them?’
For from him
and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen.”
(Romans 11:33-36)
The moment of finding out one thing is the breaking discovery of our folly and silliness because what people value highly is detestable in God’s sight. It has been that way over and over down through the generations after generations. The moment of boasting something is the realization of our complete humiliation and embarrassment. Humans do not understand themselves.
“The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to GOD.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from GOD and nearer to the Dust.
– T. S. Elliot:
The Rock
Human civilization and history amply demonstrate that it is true that we don’t understand ourselves. Scientific and technological enhancements and achievements are quite phenomenal but haven’t contributed at all in understanding the mystery of man. It’s all but trying after trying.
Why? It’s because they start approaching the matters with man. How can we break down the wall of conundrum? It is impossible with man but all things are possible with God. There is a God who knows all and who is all in all. He is the Creator of all things in heaven and on earth. Though He is invisible, He gave us the way to come to know Him. Jesus Christ is the way. He is the life and the truth.
Our God is the Lord of patience and faithfulness. His arms are wide open to accept anyone who comes to Him in the faith of the Jesus Christ. The basis of acceptance is solely on the blood of the Lamb of God who paid the price for the sin of the world in the past, the present, and the future. Bearing our sins, He was cut off even from the Father.
Jesus though He was the Son, He went back to the Father through the way of bloody cross. He took up the enormous pains and agonies of sin upon Himself in order to open the way to the Father. This is the way to understand humanity and its mystery.
The mystery of man is this: man is fallen and lost and destined to death and judgment, a Mediator has come to seek and save the lost through His death, burial, and resurrection, he has been made alive through the faith in the work of another, and Christ lives in him forever.
The new covenant has been arranged with anyone who is in Jesus Christ because a new life has been given to him. The old has gone and the new is here! The life received is the resurrection life of Jesus Christ.
It’s eternal life! It never goes dry at all. It overflows out of rivers of living water from within. That life is available for anyone to take it by faith for He indwells within forever.
God is forever love without the shadow of turning. He does not change His mind to forgive anyone who confess his sins for He is just and faithful and cleanses from all unrighteousness.
The basis of repentance is plain: God loved us first. He loved us first when we were still sinners, so we love Him back. Loving God is to obey His words, giving even a cup of cold water to the needy. God promised such a person will not lose his reward.
“And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward." (Matthew 10:42)
The reward is to bear the fruits of righteousness and the Spirit. Love, joy, and peace will blossom and never disappear from within. No one can measure the depth, height, length, and width of love, joy, and peace for they are eternal.
That’s why Paul praises God, saying “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!” May the riches of God be filled and rooted in our hearts!
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