The Inscrutable Christ

When Christ Jesus walked upon the earth He gave everyone fits. They just couldn't figure Him out. He didn't fit in any box, and category, any classification. Whenever you thought you had Him pinned He'd slip right through physically as well as in reasoning. And then to top all this off, His great work, His great victory, was a humiliating and degrading death. And THEN He didn't stay dead! And THEN He left! Talk about inscrutable. And you think it ends there, but NO, HE COMES BACK AT PENTECOST!

We have his spirit now! In us. And we are in Him. So this Person of divine inscrutability has returned and enlivens all who believe upon Him. Here's the key question. Why would we expect His life in us to fit some understandable pattern? Why do we think the inscrutable in word and deed somehow becomes fathomable in word and deed because there is this book called the Bible and these Church traditions?

You know what's inscrutable? The wind, "The wind blows (breathes) where it wills; and though you hear its sound, yet you neither know where it comes from nor where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. " (John 3:8, Amplified)