This grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things. Ephesians 3:8-9
Some blessings are beyond our knowing or understanding, and that is what jumps out for me in these verses from Ephesians 3. Only by God’s grace are we able to comprehend at all the richness of forgiveness, faith and everlasting life which Christ lavishes upon us mere humans with our finite minds.
That’s why witnessing can be so daunting for us sometimes. We are expressing to others what is naturally and initially inexpressible: unconditional love and salvation from a God who has known us forever and will know us forever. What comes forth from our mouths is by our own admission not from us, but from God. Yet we are the vessels that carry this treasure of Good News to the people around us.
Don’t be afraid of what you don’t fully understand. Don’t let the riches of Christ go unseen, unheard, unsearched for or explored. That is how we continue to expand the kingdom and grow within ourselves as his faithful people.
