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Mysteries Yet to Be Unfolded, December 25
And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which
from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created
all things by Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 3:9
.
Many have endeavored to define the mystery which Paul here mentions.
But it embraces much, and our ideas in regard to the love, the goodness,
and the compassion of God are strangely limited. Because our knowledge
of spiritual things has become so dwarfed and enfeebled, we have not
advanced from light to greater light. The Lord has not been able to open to
our understanding many precious things. In view of the losses which we
have sustained by our earthliness and commonness we have much to make
us humble....
Since the promise given in Eden, God has revealed His mysteries
through His prophets.... But many mysteries yet remain unrevealed. How
much that is acknowledged to be truth is mysterious and unexplainable to
the human mind! How dark seem the dispensations of Providence! What
necessity there is for implicit faith and trust in God’s moral government!
... “How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!”
(
Romans 11:33
).
We are not now sufficiently advanced in spiritual attainments to com-
prehend the mysteries of God. But when we shall compose the family of
heaven, these mysteries will be unfolded before us....
Then much will be revealed in explanation of matters upon which
God now keeps silence because we have not gathered up and appreciated
that which has been made known of the eternal mysteries. The ways of
Providence will be made clear; the mysteries of grace through Christ will
be unfolded. That which the mind cannot now grasp, which is hard to be
understood, will be explained. We shall see order in that which has seemed
unexplainable, wisdom in everything withheld, goodness and gracious
mercy in everything imparted. Truth will be unfolded to the mind, free
from obscurity, in a single line, and its brightness will be endurable. The
heart will be made to sing for joy. Controversies will be forever ended, and
all difficulties will be solved
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