Let me give you an example: Many of us love a good murder mystery, a real
“who dunnit” type of show. We enjoy them
by reading novels, or watching them as a movie.
In some areas they have become extremely popular as “diner murder
mysteries” where you get to be included in the events while partaking of a nice
meal with a group of other people.
However, in the end, you want to know WHO
committed the murder. You want the
mystery solved! If you went through a
two-hour meal or sat at the theatre for two hours watching a movie and then
where told it was over, but no solution had been presented to the murder, you
would almost feel that you had been cheated.
The same could be said about any type of mystery situation.
Imagine you are sitting in the audience
watching a sleight-of-hand professional on stage. He comes down into the audience and performs
his tricks directly in front of several people who can watch closely to “catch”
him in his moment of deception. You KNOW
what you are watching is a trick!
However, you are still mystified by what you are seeing. This performance of prestidigitation and
legerdemain that is taking place before your very eyes is dumbfounding. You are fully aware that this collection of
dexterous hand movements is designed to manipulate objects and deceive you as a
spectator. Fully aware of this you are still baffled by the “mystery” because
you are unable to figure out how it is being done! And in most cases once you do figure out the
solution to this mystery (if you ever do) you are no longer impressed by the presentation. You have taken the joy out of your watching
the performance.
You can thereby understand the human
reaction when someone tells you they have seen a certain movie, or read a
certain book, or perhaps gone to a specific performance, their friends quickly
say: “Don’t tell me what happens!” They
are very adamant that you not reveal to them the “mystery” that they want to
experience for themselves. I think most
of us can understand that type of feeling.
Some of you will have NO idea what I am talking about but
it’s like watching the old Disney movie “Old Yeller.” This was a 1957 drama film about a boy and a
stray dog in post-Civil War Texas. It
almost tugs at your heart-strings from the beginning to the end. However, when
you often mention it to older ones who can remember the story plot, they will
reply: “They kill Old Yeller at the end, don’t they?” That really takes the mystery out of the
entire movie.
Regardless of what questions our minds my
conceive, we are always looking for the answers to those questions. Why is the sky blue? Why is grass green? Why do we get old? Why do good people have so many
problems? And the list could go on and
on. It is almost as if we can not be
content without knowing the answer to anything that is a mystery to us.
Why is the sun so hot and yet it is so
cold in outer space? Why?
How? When? We always want to know the things that we
presently do not. To a great degree this
is a good thing. But, at the same time,
it tends to take away the mystery of our believing in miracles. By their very nature miracles are a
surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific
laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency.
By removing the mystery within any event,
we, in actuality, lower our ability to believe that things can and do happen
that we simply have not been designed to understand. We cannot even fathom that wrapped within the
confines of several pounds of muscle, organs, tissue, and flesh is one of the
greatest miracles of all time - - - US!
But, then again, we’re only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
"Enjoy the wonderment
of what you cannot explain."
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