DON’T SKIP OVER THE HARD STUFF
The simple things we can understand and apply, but the difficult things we tend to skip over and ignore. When we come to those difficult things that tax our comprehension, we lose faith in “All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness”.  We say, in effect, “It’s too deep for me! I will move on until I come to something I can understand with my natural mind.” We don’t get the inspiration or revelation that we want, so we quit trying.

Sadly, churches don’t help us with this dilemma. In fact they can’t help because they have framed their whole belief system on a few select scriptures and related doctrines that effectively rule out consideration all scriptures that fall into the “mysterious” category. Furthermore, if churches would teach how to search out the mysteries, they would be cutting their financial throats. They have created a dependency in people who come back to them weekly for a few little tidbits of knowledge that pastors have gleaned from the scriptures that are accepted within their denomination’s belief system. There is no incentive for pastors to teach people how to learn the hard stuff that they themselves do not even know.

Fortunately, God has confirmed the fact of the mysteries very clearly for us and he has made it very clear that he wants to reveal them to his people.  This link will take you to a list of scriptures with the word mystery in the KJV of the New Covenant. And this link will take you to the definition of the Greek word “musterion” which is translated “mystery” in most versions of the Bible. Knowing that He knows that it is mysterious should help us avoid shaming ourselves for our inability to understand.