…that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Colossians 2:2,3 ESV)
Mysteries
One reason modern folk like our phones is that it gives us the impression that we are connected with everything we want to know. We can check the veracity of politicians or entertainers. We can remember those things that used to languish on the edge of our mind. We can determine definitions of words, mathematical formulae, and exact dates of events in the past.
Lately I have been struck with how often that magical internet leads me astray. My searches are affected by my search parameters. Information gleaned is just as likely to be incorrect as an old People Magazine, Readers’ Digest, or coffee shop lecturer.
At those moments of unsureness, I am reminded that Jesus knows, understands, and controls every unknown data point, every factual fact, and every unsolvable mystery in the universe.
Nothing (or no one) else is as reliable, inexhaustible, or goodly-in-purpose as Jesus.
We flounder in the dark, and He is THE source of light. We fear in ignorance, and He is THE source of knowledge. We admit we do not understand reality, and He is THE lodestone of all Truth.
Without Him, we know nothing.