The Mystery

Ephesians 1 cont’d:

In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. 

Mysteries are my favorite kinds of movies.  I love getting lost in the story, trying to figure out who did it, the motive behind it, and watching the story unfold as each character emerges in the story.

It’s a true mystery how God’s will is to love us with his “kind intention” (there it is again!) that he “purposed in Him” – his son Jesus.  We did nothing to deserve his love.  Yet, the God of the universe, the key character in the story of all stories, chose to emerge on the scene and rescue us all from the abyss where we were all headed.

Who did it?  He did.  He’s the one who in all wisdom and insight revealed to us His son.

What was his motive?  His kind intention of love and grace.

What’s the story line? All of the characters had committed crimes worthy of death, until the King in the story emerged and rescued them all.

That’s a different kind of mystery, isn’t it?  Everyone should have died, but no one does, because of redemption!

That is…the sum of all things in Christ…that he first loved us and died for our sins…so that we might live.