Sacred Secrets

“...great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh…

(1Tim. 3:16)

“...this mystery...is Christ in you”

(Col. 1:27)

The word mystery as found in the scripture simply means a sacred secret. It does not mean a secret withheld, but truth previously hidden but now made known, for and to whom God intended it (cp. Col. 1:26). Also you can see this illustrated in the book of Daniel, chapter two. Elements of these supernatural secrets, even after it be once revealed, can still possess a sort of shadowy secrecy.

The Bible tells us the incarnation, God manifest in the flesh of the “Man Christ Jesus,” is a great mystery. The mystery not being great in its obscurity, but rather in its importance. But there is another mystery, among the eleven mentioned in the New Testament, not as great as the incarnation, but great in its own right. We are told, “God is in you of a truth.” (1Cor.14:25)

Once this startling truth is grasped and appropriated by faith, it will transform us in a way that all who beholds us will be amazed. Most of all, the Christian themself. Jesus, our example, said “I have glorified thee on earth.” Is it any wonder then that Paul tells us to, “Glorify God in our bodies?” If our dying words are the six that Jesus uttered, our lives will not have been spent in vain!

“To glorify God, simply put, is to make HIM look good.”