EXPERIENCE MYSTERY

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) wrote, “The human mind is not capable of grasping the universe. It is like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books…a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects…

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

I have learned both from scripture and from experience that mystery is an intended tool of the Lord to develop us. Few things have had an influence on my faith as has mystery. It is because there are just some things we cannot fully know and understand and they fall into the category of mystery. If we can no longer sense and feel this “we are as good as dead… our eyes are closed.”

“Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.” Jesus