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February 07, 2005
the mystery of God
the kingdom of God is like...
why did Jesus speak with parables? why four perspectives/gospel stories to try to teach us who Jesus was? why the confused hebrew people/nation, disciples of misunderstanding and confusion, the church in argument, and the persisting questions of what it means to know and follow God?
in the university, we study, we desire to know. coming out of the modern world view, we feel like things must be explainable, and that there are existing answers. but did Jesus come to give us a set of answers, or rather reframe for us the mystery of God?
i don't mean the wonder of God in the sense of what science can't explain. God is Lord of what we think are answers, Lord of what we don't know, Lord of what we don't know we don't know. God is beyond our science and theology, beyond our language, beyond our imagination.
but in God's complexity and transcendence, He is still: like a father, a mother, a merciful master, a servant, a sower, a good shepherd, a banquet host, a king, a woman looking for her lost coin...
God is our friend, is holiness, is peace and righteousness,... is love. God beyond us and God among us: that is the glorious mystery.
Posted by Derrick at February 7, 2005 12:37 AM