Life is a Mystery

“In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to men in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God’s holy apostles and prophets. This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.”
Ephesians 3:4-6 (NIV)


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I know what most of you are thinking right now – Pastor, tell me something I don’t already know. And although we all know intellectually that life is a mystery, the fact is that many of us don’t live our lives like we really believe that. If you doubt that, just look at how many people are trying to take the mystery out of their lives by consulting psychics, tarot card readers, fortune tellers, horoscopes, and fortune cookies. Now if you eat Chinese food with me we play a game called fortune prophesy and your fortune is a word from God…"not really" but we have fun with it...but many read these horoscopes and fortune cookies and think this stuff is real and applicable to their lives. The reality is many of us have allowed these thoughts and concepts into our lives to seek out the future.

The Bible is clear that we can’t know exactly what is going to happen in the future because that’s the way God ordained it. James makes that very clear:

“Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” James 4:13, 14 (NIV)

I don’t know if you remember Gilda Radner, she was on the cast of Saturday Night Live. She wrote this right before she died and had a better perspective on this principle than most Christians.

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned the hard way that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the most of it without knowing what’s going to happen next.”

We need to learn to embrace the fact that life is a mystery and we shouldn’t worry so much about what might happen or not happen tomorrow. You are loved...