PJP2 SEVEN - 170204 - MYSTERY

SEVEN: Share/Seek; Encourage; Verily Verify the Victory; Evaluate NOW (Note On WORD)

MYSTERY: Mighty YAHWEH Shares (His) TRUTH (of) Eternal Redemption (via) Yeshua

Mark 4:11 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."And Jesus Said to them, “To you Has Been Given The SECRET / MYSTERY Of The Kingdom of God, BUT for those outside everything is in Parables"....

Truth be told, as my Lovely Bride of 39 years and I have grown closer, I've begun to enjoy reading Mysteries with her.  Recently, Cindy introduced me to the writing of Canadian Authoress, Louise Penny and her "Three Pines" series (The Adventures of Chief Inspector Gamache).  If you too like Mysteries, and you've not read any of Ms. Penny's writing - worth checking them out.  Just be careful, her character Ruth Zardo, can be quite the interesting interaction....

Anyway, The Holy Spirit Pinged me this morning with the J-ACRONYM for MYSTERY.  Consider with me, if you will, God's WORD as God The Father's All-Abiding Reality MYSTERY of All-Time.  I mean think about it for just a second.....(A) We have The Benevolent Father Figure, Master Creator, putting our world (and us) together; (B) Then there's us His Beloved Creation, Set-Up for Success in His Newly Minted world; (C) There's the quintessential 'bad-guy'/villain, the evil one; (D) The CRIME: Murder in the 'nth' degree - the evil-one deceives us, The Beloved Creation, and in our Fall From God's GRACE, we unwittingly choose a slow-arduous pathway to death and destruction; (E) God's PLAN Of REDEMPTION takes up The REST of God's WORD - Brilliant in The SIMPLICITY of His PLAN (Send His Son, His Only Son, our Lord Jesus, to RECONCILE us to God The Father AND to Pay The Debt, Once and For All of our sins.), YET Masterful In His Execution!  Takes God The Father 66 Books (and His Holy Spirit Inspired Stable of Authors) to Flesh His STORY out to us so we can Grasp and Gasp At His Ultimate End of Saving our Souls.  Granted the villain is constantly at work attempting to thwart God The Father's PLAN of REDEMPTION.....BUT, Praise God, Like ALL Heroes (AND MYSTERY) Good Wins!  God's RIGHT Triumphs over wrong.  LIGHT will ALWAYS OVERCOME darkness.

Check out this excerpt from The Holy Spirit's Inspired WORD Recorded by God's Prophet Daniel (same one as Daniel and The Lions' Den)....  

Daniel 2:17-23 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Then Daniel went to his house and made the matter known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions, and told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this MYSTERY (JAJ NOTE: The MYSTERY....a Dream sent from YAHWEH to King Nebuchadnezzar...King N has put out an Executive Order - The "Wise Guys" of his Court need to (1) Correctly Tell King N his Dream....he won't share what it is; (2) Interpret the dream; (3) IF (1) and (2) ain't done, ALL the Wise Guys are gonna get it.....), so that Daniel and his companions might not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.  Then The MYSTERY was revealed to Daniel in a Vision of the night.  Then Daniel Blessed The God of Heaven.  Daniel answered and said: 'Blessed Be The Name Of God Forever And Ever, To Whom Belong Wisdom And Might. HE Changes Times And Seasons; HE Removes kings and Sets up kings; HE Gives Wisdom to the wise And Knowledge to those who have Understanding; HE Reveals Deep And Hidden Things; HE Knows What is in the darkness, And The LIGHT Dwells With HIM.  To You, O God of my fathers, I Give Thanks And Praise, For YOU Have Given me Wisdom And Might, And Have Now Made Known to me What we Asked of YOU, For YOU Have Made Known to us the king's Matter.'”....

Now ain't that cool?  What is even neater, God The Father's Ensured That WE have His FULL Volume all in our hands at one time.  I mean Daniel had just PART of the Bible.....BUT Daniel TRUSTED and BELIEVED that YAHWEH Could and Would Share His MYSTERY with His Servants to Make Clear God's PURPOSE to RECONCILE and REDEEM us to Himself.

So, not to be issue a spoiler-alert, BUT, if you are like me, I've been known to sneak to the back of the MYSTERY just to nail-down who really 'did it' AND How Does The Hero SAVE the lost, or wounded, or damaged victim.....

In a NUT Shell.....Here's our Lord Jesus' summation of His Story....Revelation 21:5-7 (ESV)...." And HE Who Was Seated On The Throne Said, 'BEHOLD, I AM Making ALL Things NEW.'  Also HE Said, 'Write THIS Down, For These WORDS Are Trustworthy And TRUE.'  And HE Said to me, 'IT Is DONE!  I AM The Alpha And The Omega, The Beginning And The End.  To The Thirsty I Will GIVE From The Spring Of The Water Of LIFE WITHOUT Payment.  The one who Conquers Will Have This Heritage, And I Will Be HIS God And he Will Be MY son.'"....

Sweet!

Thus, our PJP2 SEVEN/170204 Prayer for today....A Paraphrase of Prayer and Praise from
Ephesians 1:3-10 (ESV/emphasis & paraphrase added/jaj)....O Blessed Be The God And Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who Has Blessed us IN Christ With Every Spiritual Blessing In the heavenly places.  O Lord Jesus, we are in Awe, that God The Father Chose us In You Ever Before He'd Laid The Foundation Of His Created world, this earth.  Holy Spirit, Help us and Teach us What It Means that we Are Holy And Blameless Before God The Father Because of His Son, our Lord Jesus' Life, Sacrifice and Resurrection, in Completion of God's REDEMPTION PLAN of GRACE.  Father God, we Are Blessed By Your LOVE.  In Your Son, our Lord Jesus, You predestined us For Adoption To YourSelf as Your sons & daughters.  Lord Jesus, Through You, According To The Purpose Of God The Father's Will, we Have Access To PRAISE You, and Your Glorious GRACE.  Holy Spirit, By Your Indwelling, we Have Been Blessed as Your Beloved.  Father God, Through Your Son, our Lord Jesus, You Have Assured that we Have REDEMPTION Through His Holy Blood.  Lord Jesus, we Praise You, for In You we Have Been Given The Forgiveness of our trespasses.  Holy Spirit, Thank You for Revealing His MYSTERY to us, and According To The Riches Of God The Father's GRACE, we Are Overwhelmed that You Continue to Lavish Your LOVE upon us.  Lord Jesus, Please, In ALL Your Wisdom And Insight, Make Known to us Your MYSTERY and God The Father's Will.  According to Your Righteous Purpose, Father God, Your PLAN OF REDEMPTION, Which You Set Forth In Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, Your PLAN Is Completer Throughout The Fullness of TIME and Results, O Lord, In United ALL Things In Your Son, our Lord Jesus!  O Lord Jesus, we Praise You and Ask You to Come, Come Soon, that ALL Things Under Heaven and in this earth May At Last Be ONE in YOU.  We Raise our Prayers and Praise in Your Holy Name, Lord Jesus....AMEN and AMEN....jaj

Word of Encouragement:  Colossians 4:2-6 (ESV)...."Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare The MYSTERY of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make It clear, which is how I ought to speak.  Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.  Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.".....

BLUF:  1 Timothy 3:16 (ESV)...."Great indeed, we confess, is The MYSTERY Of Godliness: He was Manifested in the flesh, Vindicated by the Spirit, Seen by Angels, Proclaimed among the nations, Believed on in the world, Taken up in Glory."....