Mystery

DEVOTION
ROMANS
MYSTERY
Rom 11:25-27

25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. 27 And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
NIV
There is no question in my heart regarding this prophetic quote and how it was referring to the coming of Jesus to take away the sins of the world, which included Jacob or Israel with which God certainly had made a covenant with. But how does this passage relate to the condition I now find myself in? I am one of those Gentiles who have come in. But they must be others who need to come in. This has to be in order for the full number to be complete, and just what is this full number? Only God knows. But do I play a part? I don’t know for sure, he has commanded all of us who know Him to go into the entire world and preach the Gospel. He has said I will be a witness for Him. Yet I cannot help feel it is still in His hands. My main concern is to be obedient to His calling and His gifts upon my life. How he chooses to use people is His business. I am thinking of the parable of the farmer who paid people the same even though they worked different hours and how the first one complained. God can do whatever He desires to allow Israel to have a hardened heart for a time being in order to allow people like me to come to Him, so be it. I am confident in His wisdom. Although to a point I am, in part, Israel. This is in two senses; first I am circumcised in the heart which makes me a Jew as declared in Romans 2:28, second I have a great Grandmother who last name was Bloomline, a German Jew. So in a certain sense a part of Israel has already come in. I know this seems like a stretch to me, yet I cannot stop having the sense of not being ignorant of this mystery. Am I right or wrong, I do not know for sure, but I feel somehow, God has been gracious to me in revealing this to me, for me. I cannot fully understand why me, other than because of His love and mercy.