mysterious truth

I created this blog almost 6 months ago now but have taken little time to share my thoughts. I guess I'm just lazy. A good place to start is with the name. Mysterious.truth came from a book and a conversation. Last spring I read a book called out of the question, into the mystery by Leonard Sweet that wrestles with the concept of embracing the mystery of God. The book struck a very personal cord with me. I am a guy who likes to have everything figured out. As my mom used to tell me, I like my ducks in a row. God is so much bigger than my ducks. He doesn't need me to understand everything, he calls me to love, to follow, to rest (in) to obey HIM. Constantly I am complicating life because of my own selfishness.
Shortly after finishing the book I was in a converasation with some of my former youth group students. These girls are living the mystery and loving it, and I love what they taught me. In the midst of talking, one of them spoke up and simply asked, "Why is it that the truth can be so obvious, yet in it there is so much mystery?" I've been thinking about that question ever since.
The TRUTH is always before us. We are promised that. Yet living in the mystery of a life that is so much bigger than us is part of the truth. I'm going to resist the urge to keep typing and leave it at that. Embracing the mystery.