Some things will be a mystery until the return of Christ

Message summary & scripture references

If you are like me, you want to know how everything works. And when they don’t work, you want to know why. However, this attitude can stunt our spiritual growth because we won’t know some things about God and His ways until the return of Christ. We have to be able to live with this mystery. Adopting this attitude about learning the Word of God helps us not to lose faith when things don’t work out the way we think it should. Listen to today’s Daily Word to explore this idea more.

1 Corinthians 13:9-10 NLT

[9] Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!
[10] But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.

Matthew 24:36 NLT

[36] “However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.

Romans 9:20-21 NLT

[20] No, don’t say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who created it, “Why have you made me like this?”
[21] When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn’t he have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into?

John 9:1-3 YLT

[1] And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth,
[2] and his disciples asked him, saying, `Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?’
[3] Jesus answered, `Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;

Acts 12:1-3 NLT

[1] About that time King Herod Agrippa began to persecute some believers in the church.
[2] He had the apostle James (John’s brother) killed with a sword.
[3] When Herod saw how much this pleased the Jewish people, he also arrested Peter. (This took place during the Passover celebration.)

Acts 12:6-7 NLT

[6] The night before Peter was to be placed on trial, he was asleep, fastened with two chains between two soldiers. Others stood guard at the prison gate.
[7] Suddenly, there was a bright light in the cell, and an angel of the Lord stood before Peter. The angel struck him on the side to awaken him and said, “Quick! Get up!” And the chains fell off his wrists.

Luke 13:1-5 NLT

[1] About this time Jesus was informed that Pilate had murdered some people from Galilee as they were offering sacrifices at the Temple.
[2] “Do you think those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other people from Galilee?” Jesus asked. “Is that why they suffered?
[3] Not at all! And you will perish, too, unless you repent of your sins and turn to God.
[4] And what about the eighteen people who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them? Were they the worst sinners in Jerusalem?
[5] No, and I tell you again that unless you repent, you will perish, too.”

John 21:24-25 NLT

[24] This disciple is the one who testifies to these events and has recorded them here. And we know that his account of these things is accurate.
[25] Jesus also did many other things. If they were all written down, I suppose the whole world could not contain the books that would be written.

Job 38:1-4 NLT

[1] Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind:
[2] “Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words?
[3] Brace yourself like a man, because I have some questions for you, and you must answer them.
[4] “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much.

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