SCRIPTURES:
Rom 11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Rom 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
GOD’S MYSTERY IS MIRACULOUS
Abraham Lincoln was president during the Civil War. He was a godly man of high moral character who wanted the best for America. Yet, his life was filled with immense personal tragedy. When Lincoln was 3 years old, his infant brother Thomas died. At the age of 9, his mother died at the age of 35. And, when Abe was 18, his older sister Sarah died in childbirth in 1828.
In 1842, Lincoln married Mary Todd. The couple had four sons, but longed for a daughter. Robert was born in 1843, Edward in 1846, William in 1850, and Thomas in 1853. Unfortunately, Edward died in 1850, a month before his fourth birthday, and William died at age 11 in 1862, during the Civil War while Lincoln was President.
Just after the war, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865 at the age of 56. Had he survived, he would have experienced further heartbreak in 1871, when his youngest son Thomas (Tad) died at the age of 18. Thankfully, Robert Todd Lincoln lived to the age of 82. Of the couple’s four sons, Robert was the only Lincoln child to reach adulthood and have children.
Strangely enough, Robert Todd Lincoln was almost killed in a freak accident when he was a boy. Sometime around 1854, while waiting to board a train in Jersey City, the crowd surged forward, and young Robert fell off the edge of the platform and into the path of the approaching train. A stranger turned just in time to see young Lincoln fall, and quickly rescued him. What a miracle it was.
The stranger never recognized the youth, but young Lincoln recognized his rescuer. The man who saved his life was none other than Edwin Thomas Booth, the famous young Shakespearean actor. Skeptics would call it fate or coincidence, but Abraham Lincoln’s bloodline was kept alive by the brother of John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated Lincoln a dozen years later. Truly, God works in mysterious ways!
Psalm 147:5 says, “Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is INFINITE.”
“There is absolutely nothing that God does not know, with the exception of one thing, he knows no other god. Psa 86:10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
From the spinning of galaxies hundreds of light years in diameter down to the vibrations of sub-atomic particles, everything in creation is known and understood by God.”
For the bible says, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved…….
“We humans cannot comprehend God’s actions. Who can predict what God is going to do, or Who can explain His methods? Some of us have known times when we’ve been in the midst of circumstances that made no sense and totally baffled us. Years later, looking back, we see there was a pattern working its way through all our dark and difficult days.”
Only God knows how He accomplishes this. Yet, we don’t have to figure it out. Some things we will never be able to figure out. We have been so use the miraculous mysteries of God around us that we are sometimes blind to the fact that this thing inside of us called a heart is mysterious in itself.
For the bible says Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Not only is it mysterious, but it is miraculous.
The heart is an organ that weighs about 12 ounces. It beats on average of 72 beats per minute. At this rate, it pumps through itself 45 pounds of blood per minute, 2700 pounds hour and 32.4 tons per day.
It is a muscle that never rests except between beats. Every thirty seconds all the blood in your body passes through the heart. It has a grip greater than what you can make with your fist. What a miracle is this little organ.
It does about one-fifth of the mechanical work of the body and exerts enough energy each hour to lift its own weight 13,000 feet into the air.
And people around us today declare that miracles don’t happen, and yet its happening right in their own chest. The mystery of the miraculous is happening with every heart beat. Psa 9:1 I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
Psa 128:1 A Song of degrees. Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
The book of Genesis records how Joseph, the great grandson of Abraham, was sold into slavery by his own brothers. While serving in Egypt, Joseph refused the advances of his master’s wife, but it seemed his reward for not sinning was extra punishment. Then, approximately 14 years later, God gave Joseph the interpretation of Pharaoh’s dream, and Pharaoh promoted Joseph to the second highest office in all of Egypt!
The interpretation of Pharaoh’s dream was that there would be 7 years of plenty and 7 years of famine. Sometime during the famine, Joseph’s brothers came to Egypt to buy grain, which ultimately led to a family reunion. Yet, rather than being bitter, Joseph told his brothers, Gen 50:18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
Gen 50:19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
Gen 50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Just as God worked in Joseph’s life, God’s mysterious workings can be seen in the lives of others who try to keep His laws. The mystery is Miraculous.
God delights in showing His might & power like this—what are the odds of this happening by chance?) Isa 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isa 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
