My favorite line from  "Shakespeare in Love"... here is poor old William ... he has stuff going wrong all the time and this little old guy keeps telling him kinda "not to worry"... 'cause it will all work out... and Willy is screaming "but how!"   ... and the little old guy's reply... "I don't know... it's a mystery".... you know something... that little old guy has the handle on what's going on.... it's a mystery!

That is so offensive to my intellect... there is nothing that this great mind  of mine will be unable to figure out... there has to be an answer and I need to know  what it is... and like right now!  It is how I live from that tree of  knowledge.  There are no mysteries... there cannot be any mysteries.... I must know...whoa... sorry... life is  full of  mysteries... they cannot be figured out... mysteries have to be revealed...

Just read the scriptures... it is full of what our rational mind calls contradictions...  but they are not... they only appear to be contradictions where we are today... tomorrow... when I receive the revelation of the other side of that thing... the mystery is revealed... and I can see both sides of... what was yesterday... a total contradiction to me....

For instance, Hebrews 8: says:    "THOU HAST PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET.” For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him"

That seems pretty clear.... "there is nothing that is not subject to him"..... except... the writer goes on and says:  "But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him."

My intellect goes completely nutso... I don't get it... either all things are  in subjection or all things are not  in subjection.... my brain is screaming "that is a contradiction"...  I can't tell you the hundred different ways I've heard theologians try to rationalize that one... they can't... I can't... it's not rational... it's a mystery... and that's ok...

It is even better when He chooses to reveal  some of those mysteries to me... it's actually pretty cool... pretty exciting... I can't tell you how excited I was  to see both sides of that one!...   :)

All that to say:  yesterday  I wrote to you that God doesn't care  about our actions... today I am writing to you that God cares so much about our actions... that He sent His only Son to die because of those actions... and it's not  a contradiction...

I'll try to explain that a little... to our "on fry"  intellects ... next time... and maybe... just maybe God will give  us a revelation....

:)