"...in all wisdom and insight, having known to us the mystery of His desire, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him..."
-Paul returns to this idea of what God wants, and tells us that God in fact has a grand plan which will bring Him great pleasure. Some translations seem to want to present our heavenly Father as being devoid of all emotion whatsoever - they mention the plan but not the pleasure. Nevertheless, while it is a mystery to some, this matter of what God is up to, of what He wants, it is no longer a mystery to those He has brought into His family, to those who have received His offer of forgiveness and redemption through Christ. In fact He has given us all wisdom and insight, all that we need in order to know what He is up to, this great plan that is in fact exaxctly what He wants and is indeed going to bring Him much pleasure.
-Sadly to the ones outside of Christ the things of God are a mystery, so hard to understand or so much foolishness, making no sense whatsoever. God and His ways are veiled in a mist, strange and mysterious to those who are estranged from Him. You can hear it when they talk about Him and whenever they may try to talk to Him. But He so wants each of us to know Him, to come to Him and get to know Him personally, to learn what He wants, what does give Him pleasure. It grieves Him, how folks give Him the Heisman, keeping Him at bay, at arm’s length, too busy or distracted or enamored with the baubles and trinkets and stuff of this life. But when we come home to Him in our heart, to the place He Himself designed us to be, suddenly the veil is removed and we begin to know Him just as He fully knows us. Suddenly He really is our Daddy in heaven, and we can relate to Him personally, and we get it, His grand eternal plan now begins to make total sense to us. We may not ultimately understand every facet and nuance, but we get the big picture. This is actually a big part of the plan - in the end doesn’t every daddy get great pleasure when his children come home, when they begin to pursue His heart and begin to value and desire the same things that He does? And Paul unpacks this in greater detail in the next verse...
No comments:
Post a Comment