DRUMBEATS, MYSTERIES AND MANTRAS

Jesus obviously marched to a new and different drumbeat. It is clear from scripture the Father’s heart determined the course of the Son’s actions and the course of the Son’s conversations, for of Himself the Son could do nothing. His life moved to the spiritual rhythm of His Father’s heart, mimicking His Father’s words and performing the Father’s chosen works. Real life is a drama played out on God’s stage, written, produced, directed, and staring God. For the most part we receive little insight into “why”, why God does… or why God doesn’t…, its called faith. His methods are purposeful and intentional, unanticipated and unknowable, and often troubling or painful for God’s ways are a mystery, unfathomable and unsearchable, and past finding out. The secret mysteries of God are, well …a secret. It is clear there are no formulas, no prerequisites, and no divine recipes for miracles, be they healing, de-deviling, or the mountain moving kind. We live in the brokenness of a fallen world, between the times, the cross behind us and full redemption ahead, and we really do not understand the miraculous breaking in of God into our circumstances, infrequent, but frequent enough to keep hope alive. We have become experts at explaining God’s mysteries, sculpturing “doctrine” out of cobbled up half-truths rather than allowing God’s sovereignty to speak for itself. Deception is birthed in half-truths torn from their context and dressed up in desire. This much we can say:  Jesus’ life flowed forth out of His Father’s indwelling life.  His mantra was “Not My will but your will Father.”  Whether it be subjection to human form, a wine fest, the wilderness, Jacob’s Well, the Pool of Bethesda, purging the temple of commerce, The Garden, or the Place of the Skull, “Not My will but your will Father.” We need to remember, “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us.”  We will never understand why some things happen, or, more often, why they don’t. These are “God’s secrets” and don’t concern us.  We need to concern ourselves with “those things which are revealed”; the clear literal well documented promises of God’s word. And we need to embrace God’s absolute Sovereignty in all things in heaven and on earth, knowing He knows better than we what is best for us – even when it hurts.  Jesus always obeyed the Father; rather than try to understand the unfathomable lets embrace the knowable and emulate His obedience.                                                                                   

IT’S OK NOT TO KNOW WHY