If a flight crew pays enough attention to the sky around them, they will eventually likely see something unfamiliar. Such is the nature of flight. Experiencing the unfamiliar is also very much the nature of the Christian faith.
The Christian life is, among other things, a journey of experience. Experience may sometimes need to be put under the theological microscope of proper biblical interpretation. It cannot be blindly assumed that every mystical experience is of God. But to abandon all mystical experience as somehow misleading us into error is to impoverish ourselves spiritually and perhaps miss out on profound blessings our Lord intends to give us.
We dare not and cannot exclude mystery from our faith because the object of that faith is mysterious by nature.
How could an infinite and eternal Being be anything less than mysterious to even we who know Him in salvation? Even the deepest Christian is still, on this side of Heaven, looking at God “as through a glass darkly.” Thanks be to God that it will not always be that way.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 1 Corinthians 13:12 (KJV)
