It’s the wonder
and mystery that draws me to the knowledge about God. It’s the knowledge about God that increases
my wonder and mystery of God. They both
work together in harmony to cause me to love Him more. It’s the balance that brings the blessing in
my relationship with Him.
Loving God simply
remains a commandment, not a commitment, if you don’t know Him. How can I love what I do not know? How can I know and not love? God chooses to reveal Himself to all of
creation in the wonder and mystery of nature.
He also reveals Himself in the Scriptures that have been recorded down
through time that tell His Story. As a
final and fulfilled revelation of Himself He sent His Son in the flesh, to be
among us face to face. It is obvious to
me that God wants to be known and fully accessible to all people
everywhere. I have only to receive and
believe in the wonder, in the mystery, and in the name of Jesus Christ to know
and secure the right to become His child.
And I do.
Infants are born
with that pure and innocent sense of wonder and mystery. As they grow their sense of adventure and
imagination exceeds their knowledge so they do unconventional things like draw
pictures on walls with crayons or see empty boxes as toys rather than the toy
that came in the box. They run freely in
every direction when they discover what legs are for. They see life through the eyes of wonder and
mystery and want to take part in it all.
Then as they grow older knowledge increases, as it must, to teach, to
correct, and to train. They learn walls
are not the medium for their coloring, boxes are containers for the toy not the
toy itself, and streets are not to be freely run across. They learn boundaries that will keep them
safe and well, and barriers that they need to heed. These are necessary and worthy lessons but
they should never replace or destroy the sense of wonder and mystery that
brings life to these lessons. The same
hold true in my quest to know God; I must look for Him in nature and in the
Scriptures through eyes of wonder and mystery.
My knowledge will increase my desire to love Him and my love will
increase my desire to know Him.
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