Friday, November 30, 2018

The Alpha of Secrets and Revelations

UV 3118/10000 The Alpha of Secrets and Revelations
The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 29 v 29
What the Lord has kept secret is not meant for us to know. His ways and thoughts are beyond human cognitive ability. Instead of trying to know the secrets of God, we are to put to use what He has made known to us. We are not accountable for what we do not know but we are accountable for what we know of God and His ways. Whatever we need to know of who He is, why He created us, why and how He redeemed us, how He provides,protects and promotes our well being is revealed to us in His word. Since Jesus is the only person who has seen God, been with Him from the very beginning and before the beginning of creation, He is the only One who could reveal all the secrets of the nature, character, power, love and grace of the Father. He has also revealed the broad contours of the kingdom of God and how we are part of the kingdom of God. He has revealed to us our true identity once we are grafted onto Him, the True Vine in faith.
Jesus has revealed to us that nothing is too difficult or impossible for the Lord God. He also taught us to ask in faith, without doubting, without wavering and with thanksgiving. Now once we get a grasp of this revealed truth, then we know that nothing is impossible to us in Christ. We realize that the Lord God revels in doing the difficult and the impossible so that our eyes would see what we have not seen before, our ears will hear what we have not heard before, our imagination would be astounded by what the Lord does in our lives. While non believers are constantly trudging on the road of drudgery, the possible, the easy, the facile, the path of least resistance, flowing with the tide and running with the current of time, we are called to think of doing the impossible and difficult. Yes, we do not have to dream of doing the impossible but we only have to think of doing the impossible. The Lord has also revealed that we should be wise in what we choose to do in our lives. We are not to jump off a cliff or from the pinnacle of a temple in the hope that the Lord will keep our feet from being hurt. He , however, has promised us that He will give us hope in seemingly hopeless situations.
The revelations of erstwhile secrets have been given to us among all mankind so that we will be able to do all that is written in His word. The impossible and difficult becomes doable. The Lord fills us all the time with enormous grace and power to do His word. We only need to claim, appropriate, use this power. As long as we keep our commitment to love and obey the Lord, it is our inheritance, our heritage to be like Him, to behave like Him, to speak and execute things like Him. Like Jesus, we can conquer death, sin, evil, failure, treachery, betrayal, sadness, loneliness, bondages of every kind. The Lord becomes our fulcrum on which we can leverage to lift enormous loads, lift other people out of spiritual poverty, eternal misery and bring them into understanding of their eternal destiny. We become the manifestation of the good news to the world. Without Jesus, people are generally harbingers of bad news. With Jesus, people become messengers of good news. The uni-verse states that what is revealed to us is to make us strong, enthusiastic, purposive, courageous, creative, compassionate, humble and faithful.

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