Proverbs 25: 2
It is the glory of God to conceal things,
But the glory of kings is to search them out.
What separates the Creator God from everyone is that His ways are “past finding out.” The unique splendor of God lies in the fact that we cannot put our minds around Him, uncover what He has covered.
For some well-meaning people, this glory burns them up. They despair that there is One whose path is in the clouds, whose covering is with thick darkness, who “thoughts are not our thoughts and ways not our ways.”
But don’t fall into clichés when you come up to the Concealing God:
- You could deny: “What my mind can’t grasp can’t be true”
- Or you could take the idea too far: “I cannot say one truth thing about such an Elusive Being” – I’m going to worship with the Emergents!
- Or you could despair: “If something is mysterious it makes everything not mysterious seem banal: I’m going to watch re-runs and check e-mail all day”
No, my sister and brother: Calm and quiet your soul, like a weaned child with its mother. Hope in God, from this time forth and forevermore.
And don’t just sit there! What makes the king a king? (but let’s go further); what is our hallmark as “prime ministers” of this new covenant? DILIGENCE IN UNCOVERING. Just as God uniquely conceals, we uniquely find out.
More on that tomorrow.
Bible Reading: Romans 15: 7-13
Wow! There has been one divinely-ordained racial division in history: that of Jews and Gentiles. If that division has been done away through Messiah’s death, then why would you be annoyed by the guy wearing the too-tight suit or be bored by the woman with whom you have nothing in common or be at odds with the one who is also united with the Messiah?
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