Revelation 10
Embrace the Mystery!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, March 11.
When I read Revelation 10 and John is writing down how God is revealing hidden things to us verse after verse, I am taking it all in. Just as in a good mystery, God doesn’t allow us to see everything up front.
Listen to Revelation 10:4, “When the seven peals of thunder had spoken, I was about to write; and I heard a voice from heaven saying, ‘Seal up the things which the seven peals of thunder have spoken and do not write them.’”
How do you handle that? In the midst of God pulling back the veil through John and giving us the book of Revelation, God essentially tells us, “Not this! Now is not the time for you to know everything.”
Are you OK with the fact that there are some things you are not allowed to know, yet?
Personally, I love it! I embrace the reality of the mystery of God. I love that He knows and I don’t. It keeps me fully submitted, fully anticipating, and fully engaged.
Fully submitted is the life of FAITH!
Fully anticipating is the life of HOPE!
Fully engaged is the life of LOVE!
Faith-Hope-Love are the three theological virtues. The reality of mystery leads me to stay humble and live my life in reflection to who God is and what God is doing. And that is the life that God wants me to live.
How are you embracing the mysteries of God?
Seize the moment and live the life of faith, hope, and love.
I encourage you to continue to review all of your memory verses. Let’s recite this week’s memory verse from Romans 12:3 (NAS95), “For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.”