“And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ …” [Ephesians 1:9 NIV]
Ooo … a mystery! The word mystery here has nothing to do with things eerie or the junk novels that are so much a part of our culture. It means a “sacred secret, once hidden but now revealed to God’s people.”
We believers can share in a secret, the secret that God will one day unite everything in Christ.
Ever since sin came into the world, things have been falling apart. First, man was separated from God, then from each other. God scattered us across the globe and gave us different languages. God even set a difference between Jew and Gentile when He called Abraham and made a covenant with him.
It stayed that way until the cross, when we became reconciled to God, and to each other. In Christ, that wall of differences between Jew and Gentile was erased – now both stand even, accepted by faith, or rejected through lack of it.
Sin tears everything apart. But God, in Christ, brings it all back together – that’s the best mystery of all!
