Mysterious

I am currently reading through Matt Redmans book titled "Face Down". It is a great book that is recapturing a heart for worshipping God in his amazing complexities of opposites. How a God full of such wrath also extends unlimited mercy. Who knows everything yet chooses to forget sins.

I was led to dig deeper into scripture about this great mystery of God and found this passage:

1Ti 3:16 -
"And most certainly, the mystery of godliness is great: He was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory."

I wonder if many people who saw Jesus thought "This Christ is a mysterious character". In many of his letters, the apostle Paul spoke of the great mystery of Christ becoming clear through the spirit's revelation to him. Oh, to fully grasp the greatest mystery that will ever exist. Christ, who was fully man and fully God, who was without sin yet wiped away our sins, who died yet came back to life to reign in heaven.

This mystery should cause us to not draw near in total casualness but in great reverance knowing that we can only understand such a small part of who God is. Intimacy with majesty only by the grace extended to us.

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