The good news is that factor has powered our lives in healing and safety and knowledge through researchers, scientists (including doctors), engineers and great thinkers. And we can't leave out how parents won't rest until they find the best solution for a child's dilemma, and how friends ponder and persist to help each other.
The grand momentum among people, in fact, may come down to our drive to learn how to help and serve each other. Problem-solving for each other is really the solving of mystery.
Maybe that's why some of us get hung up on the larger mystery of God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit. We get used to successfully figuring things out so when we bump up against something so much larger--and unknown--we try to fit it into our mystery-solving schema. If we can't make this unknown known, or at least known enough, we discard it as false or deny it altogether.
We have the salute wrong. We are saluting our own intelligence when we solve a given mystery, forgetting that something set our "need to know" factor in motion. Failure to step outside of our own abilities--to credit a creator--is to hijack the very gifts we've been given.
If you gave your child the most amazing gift, would you expect acknowledgment?
If you solved the world's greatest mystery, would you want your name credited?
Okay, take a brief bow. But let's don't get stuck in the mire of our own accomplishment. If there is a bigger someone to salute, an unsolved mystery that must remain acknowledged but unsolved, how do we help each other get there?
I don't know. But I need to know.
Tomorrow: What the bible says about mystery.
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