Looking To The Cross | Day 25 | Ephesians 1:7-10

God is big. God’s plans are big.

This verse is absolutely grandiose, encompassing all of time and space! But the word that leaps off the page from this passage is “mystery”. Some people are really uncomfortable with mystery. If you are one of those people who reads the last page of a book first, you understand that knowing the end of a story adds incredible insight to its beginning and middle.

Remember watching The Sixth Sense? Nobody saw the ending coming and it changed the entire frame of reference for the rest of the movie. If you watched it a second time, then with the understanding that the main character is a ghost, you see everything in a different light. The scenes look different. The characters aren’t interacting as you’d thought. The dialogue has new meaning. It isn’t the same story at all because the ending changes everything.

Christ is the end of the story. He is the mystery revealed. 

Because we know Revelation, Genesis reads differently. Because we know Jesus, the Old Testament becomes a story about Him. The characters, events, laws, and wisdom take on new meaning in light of Jesus. And because the Bible tells us how this big, grandiose story ends…and Who wins… living in the “middle” is an entirely different experience. 

Knowing the end of a story transforms its beginning and middle. Knowing Jesus transforms everything.