The Spirit of Everyday Life (Day 3)

Today while driving down Camp Road, I once again noticed what I've grown to call the "stairs to nowhere"  This set of well made stairs seem to lead to a platform that serves no purpose as far as I can tell from the outside.  I constantly wonder if they have a purpose, or if they are there as a memorial to some former purpose they once served.  I don't know what they are there for but it seems that those who own them want them there for some reason, and that's all I need to know.

Today it struck me that this is a lot like the idea of God's mysteries.  Paul tells us in Ephesians 1 that God has "made known to us the mystery of his will."  I have always wondered what that really meant because I certainly don't know God's will for my day to day life, much less the will of God in regards to some of the bigger questions we face in this world. Sometimes I think I have the answers only to find out that I'm still far from fully understanding things.

I do though think we can know God's love and know that sometime, somehow, someway it brings everything back into relationship with it's creator.  But the questions remain: How? When? Which way? We don't know any of this, that is the mystery, known only to the one who owns the mystery.  We are given a vision of what it's all about, but at most hints about the rest. 

Much like the stairs to nowhere, it's not important that I know all the answers.  I trust that the owner and creator of them had and has a purpose and reason for what he does.  Likewise I must trust that God who creates and is part of everything in this world has a purpose and a reason for what happens here that will lead where God wants it to go.