Flight crews sometimes see amazing things from their cockpit windows: distant thunderstorms lighting up the night sky, endless variety in cloud formations, the Aurora Borealis.
Science tells us we can dissect and understand all these things. Our hearts simultaneously tell us there is still great and beautiful mystery in this world.
Even the presence of the Spirit of Christ living within us does not eliminate the mysteriousness of the divine. The true believer today may know far more of God, the Father, than even the most pious Israelite did in the time prior to Jesus coming. Yet today’s Christian must still grapple with and accept the sublimity of his Lord.
So many of our experiences with spiritual things remain beyond our ability to fully describe, much less completely understand. We sometimes enter the realm of the inexpressible when we are authentically touched by the Holy Spirit.
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. Colossians 1:16 (ESV)
