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Thursday... This is a great mystery.


Thursday... This is a great mystery.

I love mysteries. My leisure reading or TV show watching is usually a mystery. 

David says in Psalm 40:3b (MSG), "they enter the mystery, abandoning themselves to God." And therein lies some of the challenge, the unknown of a relationship with God.

Now the key to solve a mystery is to read the book or watch the show to the end. But just setting the book down or turning off the show doesn't let you solve the mystery but that is what so many do in their relationship with God.

Paul writes to Timothy and he says in 2 Timothy 3:15-17, "There's nothing like the written word of God to showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or the another - showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God's way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us." 

David in Psalm 40:1-3 tells his story. He says, "I waited and waited for God. At last he looked; finally he listened. He lifted me out of the ditch, pulled me from deep mud. He stood me up on a solid rock to make sure I wouldn't slip. He taught me how to sing the latest God-song, a praise-song to God. More and more people are seeing this: they enter the mystery, abandoning themselves to God."

I'm telling you, this is the best mystery I've ever been a part of and I have abandoned myself to God, to a life of faith. I may not understand it all but I love living this life that God has set before me.

And David goes on. In verses 4-5 he says, "Blessed are you who give yourselves over to God, turn your backs on the world's 'sure thing,' ignore what the world worships; This world's a huge stockpile of God-wonders and God-thoughts. Nothing and no one compares to you! I start talking about you, telling what I know, and quickly run out of words. Neither numbers nor words account for you."

Verse 5 in the New Living Translation says, "O Lord my God, you have performed many wonders for us. Your plans for us are too numerous to list. You have no equal. If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds, I would never come to the end of them."

Now that is a mystery, a wonder that I want to keep experiencing. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning 

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