There is mystery throughout the revelation of
God. The earliest recorded history of God’s interaction into the physical
world contains the mysterious creation of male and female, distinct in their
individual personalities yet each existing only through the other. It
continues with the incomprehensible gathering of all ethnic groups, genders,
and statuses of life into a kingdom where there is neither Jews nor Greeks,
males nor females, masters nor slaves. It concludes with the mystery of
mysteries, the manifestation of the risen Christ coming into the world of
men to bring order out of disorder, harmony out of disharmony, and atonement
out of separation. The outworking of the life of God from the vantage point
of man is always mysterious.
The essence of the mystery lies in the fact that man is a flesh and blood
creature that has been animated by the Spirit of God. Being a creature of
two different natures, he is caught in a world of physics yet the essence of
life is nonphysical. In other words, man always experiences life in a
physical setting yet it is never the physical setting that produces the life
that is being experienced. Ultimately, the incarnation of spiritual life
into the experiences of the physical world is beyond the comprehension of
man. Although the natural world is observable and therefore comprehendible,
the spark of life that brings animation to an inanimate body is without
observation and therefore without comprehension. Man experiences the life of
God but he knows not how.
It is this aspect of mystery that man does not understand and more
tragically will not accept. Man desires to be the sole captain of his ship,
the master of his destiny, and the controller of the events of his life. He
continually strives to create an orderly arrangement of activities, a
comfort zone, in which he can live the days of his life. Failing to accept
that the essence of the events of life is beyond his command, he erroneously
attempts to control the times and the seasons of the happenings of his life.
When man attempts to control life, man’s intellect becomes the center of
his existence. The living of life itself is then regulated to the object of
his existence. When life becomes the object of man’s existence by the use
of the mind in the attempt to control life, the simplicity or the innocence
of life is lost. Man has fallen and the good life is no more.
Mysteriously, life is not the object of man’s existence. It is man’s
existence. Living in harmony with life, understanding the ways of life,
which only comes with the revelation of Jesus Christ as life, is the path to
the good life. Man now
stands in need of Biblical counseling, two coming together to experience the
manifestation of Jesus in their lives.
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