majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of
him in Matthew 11:27,
"All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the
Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and
those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
How wonderful the Son of God has chosen to reveal God the Father, so
that some may know him! We're talking about the Creator of the
universe here... that One is available to be known! This lost and
fallen world is estranged from God and simply can't see him or know
him. It is no wonder that mankind comes up with wacky notions of why
we exist, where we came from, where we are going. They don't know God!
And the best they can come up with are half-witted notions of things
like "evolution", etc. in a feeble attempt to answer the big questions
in life. Incoherence becomes cloaked when one is completely in the
dark.
As I say, how wonderful Jesus Christ has chosen to make his Father
known to those who are his. So, who are "those to whom the Son chooses
to reveal him."? Those who respond to the gospel message by embracing
Jesus Christ in faith. We don't respond to the Gospel message because
we have come to know God. It is the other way around. We come to know
God because we responded to his invitation in the gospel and now have
come to know him as his children. Salvation doesn't come by a well
developed theology. It comes from the reception of God's offer in the
gospel by faith.
Jesus' point in Matthew 11:16-19 is that the world doesn't know what
to think of the things of God. Since they don't know God, no matter
what they are told, they just can't accept it. When we become God's
children, the Lord sends his Holy Spirit to us and he teaches us about
the things of God:
"The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who
among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within
him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the
Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the
Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely
given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human
wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths
in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the
things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to
him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually
discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he
himself is not subject to any man's judgment: 'For who has known the
mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?' But we have the mind of
Christ." 1 Corinthians 2:10-16.
Just how wonderful is that?!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share
your thoughts of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We'd
love to hear from you!
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