The
Wonder of All Wonders
God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does
not comply with the views and opinions of people. God does not go the way that
people want to prescribe for him; rather, his way is beyond all comprehension,
free and self-determined beyond all proof.
Where reason is indignant, where our nature rebels, where
our piety anxiously keeps us away: that is precisely where God loves to be.
There he confounds the reason of the reasonable; there he aggravates our
nature, our piety--that is where he wants to be, and no one can keep him from
it. Only the humble believe him and rejoice that God is so free and so
marvelous that he does wonders where people despair, that he takes what is
little and lowly and makes it marvelous. And that is the wonder of all wonders,
that God loves the lowly...God is not ashamed of the lowliness of human beings.
God marches right in. He chooses people as his instruments and performs his
wonders where one would least expect them. God is near to lowliness; he loves
the lost, the neglected, the unseemly, the excluded, the weak and broken.
That...is the unrecognized mystery of this world: Jesus
Christ. That this Jesus of Nazareth, the carpenter, was himself the Lord of
glory: that was the mystery of God. It was a mystery because God became poor,
low, lowly, and weak out of love for humankind, because God became a human
being like us, so that we would become divine, and because he came to us so
that we would come to him. God as the one who becomes low for our sakes, God in
Jesus of Nazareth —that is the secret, hidden wisdom... that "no eye has
seen nor ear heard nor the human heart conceived" (1 Cor. 2:9)...That is
the depth of the Deity, whom we worship as mystery and comprehend as
mystery. -Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if
they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is
written,
"What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human
heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him"-- "these
things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches
everything, even the depths of God."
1 Corinthians 2:8—10
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