The Hidden Revealed

 DEVOTION

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW

THE HIDDEN REVEALED

Matt 13:34-35

34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. 35 So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet:

"I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world."  

NIV

It does seem interesting that many of the times his disciples ask him to explain the parable to them as they are going to do again regarding the parable of the good seed and the weeds. Still, the prophet spoke that he would always speak in parables so that the hidden things since the creation of the world would be revealed to those who have an ear to hear. Once again, we deal with this idea that some would call mysterium tremendum, or the mystery of God, especially the mystery of His existence. There are several times throughout the letters of Paul that he makes the case that we have been revealed the mystery of God, mainly Christ. There are only times when we are told that we may have a full understanding of the mystery of God. The fact is that because we have the Spirit dwelling within us, due to the fact that we have been baptized with the Spirit, just as John the Baptist said Jesus would do, we then have all the knowledge within of the mystery of God. The Spirit gives us the ears to hear, the eyes to see if we only would avail ourselves of the influence of the Spirit. If we think that it is God’s desire to without anything from us, then He is not God. In Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, he makes it clear that what he tells them has been revealed to him by God. Why would God want to hide anything from us, considering we are His children, His creation, and He desires that we know Him fully? That is the reason we have been given the Spirit so that He will lead us into all, not some, not the partial truth, but all truth, holding nothing back from us. Now, of course, there are those who still believe we as humans, in our human minds cannot fully comprehend the existence of God, thus that term, mysterium tremendum, however, that term was established by the German theologian Rudolf Otto, who is but a man, and although he was a protestant theologian, it does not mean he was walking in step with the Spirit, and thus he would not have the truth of God revealed fully to him, thus he felt there was still some mystery about the existence of God. We are to walk by faith, live by faith, and see and hear the truth through faith in the triune God, of whom dwells within us. So it is possible that we can understand all the things that were hidden since the creation of the world, for God desires to reveal them to us.