Kingdom Secrets
The mystery of the Kingdom is like a secret…
It is revealed so openly, and yet it remains a profound mystery to those whose ears and eyes and hearts are shut to that which it reveals. To these, the Kingdom is little more than a visibly organised religion.
But to those with the capacity to listen, the Kingdom has an unsurpassable depth which requires a lifetime of learning, understanding, and living. To these, the secrets are revealed as paradoxes which captivate the heart and cause them to dance according to its rhythm towards the throne of the One who reigns in the realm of the now-and-not-yet.
To those whom the secrets of the Kingdom are revealed - they must carry the cross. For the world loves to punish these secret-carriers.
Comments (2)
here is one of those great paradoxes, isn't it? Jesus spoke in 'secrets' and the kingdom came secret-like, yet how much theology today is "secret-y"? is there room for mysteries, for the hiddenness of God's plan, for knowledge as the culmination of a process (as opposed to something we can read in some Sys.Theo book), etc.?
Posted by alwyn | February 15, 2007 11:57 AM
A whole new world opens to us when we choose to live the beautitudes. Jesus says we are Blessed to live that way.
Posted by luke | February 15, 2007 2:46 PM