Colossians 1:26-27 “The mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. 27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
The good news is that God is absolutely, totally, utterly and completely satisfied with everything He has done in Jesus. Nothing we can do or even think of doing will ever appease Him. He is already appeased through everything He planned and accomplished in Jesus. All who are “in Jesus” benefit eternally.
God has appeased Himself! He alone paid the price for our sins. A price too high for us to pay!
He kept His plan to Himself for thousands of years and worked it out generation after generation.
He used both Hebrew and Gentile genes to bring it to pass. Sometimes the genes pool got down to one person through whom Emmanuel (God with us) would come. Sometimes He used kings, liars, murderers and prostitutes like Rahab to keep His precious mysterious Abrahamic gene pool alive.
Satan, angels, demons, kings and prophets all tried to figure out His plan, but failed. It ever remained a mystery in the heart of God.
Then one day an angel stood in a mud-brick house and spoke to a young teenage girl and told her that the power of the Highest would overshadow her and she would conceive the Son of God. Mystery fulfilled, but not revealed.
Years later on the road to Damascus a chosen vessel of God named Saul fell to the ground and struck blind in the presence of Jesus. Saul at the time was a violent, rebellious, religious bigot but he was God’s choice to reveal His mystery in detail through the power of preaching and the pen. The mystery that Satan was cast down from heaven and the Son of God enthroned on the right hand of His Father along with faithful believers from the entire human gene pool. Ephesians 2:6-7 “And raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”
Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! He has done it all.
