Think of this phrase, “…The wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden
wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory”. Even before
the heavens and the Earth were spoken into being, throughout hundreds
of thousands of generations, God had a mystery, a truth hidden in His
heart; He had a secret yet to be revealed to humanity. And now, He has
chosen to reveal it to you and me when we posture ourselves in love.
Verse
10 says, “But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit.” In other
words, from eternity past and through hundreds and thousands of
generations something was hidden. Even during the lifetimes of the
great patriarchs of the faith like Noah, Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah and
Amos, the mysteries of God were undisclosed, saved for another time. If
you were to sit down and try to figure out the unbelievable, astounding
things which are waiting for you, it is greater than your wildest
imaginations. Think of your best devotional, prayer or worship time,
and it pales in comparison to the dreams in God’s heart.
At
the time Paul was writing this, the Holy Spirit was beginning to
release a new revelation of the understanding of the character of God.
As Jesus said, “It is better that I go away, because I will send the
Helper, the Holy Spirit”. The human mind, the carnal mind, cannot
figure out what is in the heart of God. Without the revelation of the
Holy Spirit, you cannot try to figure out the grand things which await
you.
Paul
gives us the secret to knowing these mysteries which are hidden in the
heart of God. “For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things
of God … Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been
freely given to us by God. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, and
the deep things of God.” The Holy Spirit, the very Spirit who is from
God is sent to us, the redeemed, to reveal the deep things of God.
Oftentimes, we think of the Holy Spirit as an ethereal being who
somehow is supposed to help us in our journey with God. But here, we
see the Holy Spirit as a Person, the Spirit who searches out the deep mysteries of God and reveals them to humans.
This
is not only His function, but He is truly eager to release the
knowledge of God with such massive depth, width and height. He searches
out the very nature and character of God. This may seem like an odd
concept that God searches out God, but think of it this way, the Holy
Spirit goes headlong into the heart of God and searches out every last
corner, even the deep things of God. He searches out these deep things,
intimately knowing God in His fullness and in turn offers them freely
to anyone who loves God.
If
you’ve set your heart toward God and you think that encountering Him
will be like getting a million dollars, think again. It’s far greater,
even ten million is too low. A billion … don’t short-change yourself.
Our puny minds are too small to wrap themselves around the good things
God has in store for us. No human can comprehend what is waiting for a
believer when they set their heart on pursuing the knowledge of God.
The
Bible is obviously one of the best sources to delve into and get lost
in finding the hidden things of God’s being, heart, dreams, desires.
Ezekiel and John the Beloved were encountered with the throne room in
Heaven and the man seated there and through their encounter many have
been given a picture of God, revelation upon revelation of who He is.
Let yourself be consumed with the search, for the find is astounding
and your depths are crying out for His.
I
Corinthians 2:7 says, “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the
hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which
none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not
have crucified the Lord of Glory”. Paul is referring to mysteries which
have been hidden in the heart of God for ages and ages. And now, as he
says something like this, “But now the Holy Spirit is releasing these
bits of wisdom to mankind”, also called the “revelation of the
knowledge of God.”
