Walk Into Mystery

The faith journey with Jesus is an invitation to walk into mystery.  Those who start expecting things to fall into place and for everything to make sense will soon fall to the wayside with their disappointment.  How can the journey with Jesus not be a journey into mystery?  How can it not be a journey into what cannot be fully known?  To behold the Incarnation is to behold mystery.  In many ways we have watered down the mystery of Incarnation to be little more than a sweet story about a baby being born in hard times.  We shape the story to mimic our own stories of birthing children.  

The Incarnation event is not a photo event, but a history shattering moment when God Himself steps across the portal of what cannot be comprehended into all that is mortal and finite. If we were to write a thousand books on the Incarnation of Jesus into our world, the mystery would still exist.  No matter how complete the explanation, it would still be in the land of the incomplete.  How can what cannot be explained be explained?  The answer is that faith reveals only partially the mystery.    

The invitation of Jesus is not to dissect the mystery, but to experience it.  It is (if I may borrow the name of a famous writing) an invitation to walk into the cloud of not knowing.  It is not an invitation for the dabblers of life, but for those who want to be sure at the end that they have experienced the all the abundance and purpose that life can offer.  Such is what Jesus promises to those who choose the journey.  When it is all said and done, it will be worth journeying forward with Christ into the mystery and the land of not knowing.