Can You Live With Mystery?
May 4 —
Last Monday I finally found my birth mother. Her last resting place is on a dusty cemetery hill outside a Texas border-town. She moved to Zapata nine years ago and died in 2007. I met some of her friends. Nobody knows why she chose their town. They described her as fun, friendly, artistic and generous; but private. I was fortunate to find and photograph some of her artwork. They knew nothing about her giving me up for adoption or any other family matters. She had spent the previous twenty years teaching art in Mexico City and Puerto Vallarta. I found some answers; but even more questions. I don’t think I’ll ever have all the answers I want.
In many ways, God is like that. “Can you solve the mysteries of God? Can you discover everything about the Almighty?” (Job 11:7) “Truly, O God our Savior, you work in mysterious ways.” (Isaiah 45:15) Many of us mistakenly confuse knowing about God with knowing God. Our loving Heavenly Father is beyond our understanding; but He wants to be known. God chose to be known by becoming one of us in Jesus Christ and reconciling us to Himself by becoming a sacrifice for our sins on the cross. We’ll never have all the answers to life’s questions, but we can know the One who gives us life and who offers to walk with us through life. “God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.” (Romans 8:28)
Corrie Ten Boom and her family were Dutch Christians who suffered in a concentration camp because they sheltered Jews from the Nazis. Corrie alone survived; and led her former captors to faith in Jesus Christ. She said that our lives look like the underside of an embroidered image; a confusing jumble of threads. But from Heaven’s perspective, they reveal beauty and purpose if we have chosen to live life’s mysteries by faith. Will you entrust your life to Jesus?
See you in church Sunday!
Grace & blessings,
Pastor Bob
