Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Mysterious God
One verse out of this weeks reading that really struck me was Ecclesiastes 11:5, “Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.” In his wisdom the Preacher was humble enough to realize that trying to figure out God’s plan was often as futile as trying to find the original of wind. In the ancient near east the wind was something that could be experienced but not necessarily explained. And the same thing was true for the intricacy of a new born baby being form in its mother’s womb. People in the ancient near east rightly saw that the complexity of a human being was awe inspiring. While medical science and meteorology are much more advanced than it was when the Preacher wrote this verse but the writers point is not really the origin of wind or bone but the mystery God’s plan. Although, it is true that the post-modern movement has inflated God’s mystery to an unhealthy extreme, I believe that many in evangelicalism have distanced themselves way to far from a biblical concept of God’s mystery. I believe in our Western context we are often so busy trying to understand and explain God’s plan that we miss out on enjoying the truth that God knows his plan even when we don’t know it. What is needed is a biblical and balanced view of our mysterious God. But for us to begin to seek the biblical concept of God’s mystery we must begin with humility and honesty both of which are traits God must work into us as we yield to him more and more.
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