I love scheming a little. Planning in secret to do things that I think will be amazing. Loving folks in little ways that take a little putting together, but are so worth it in the end.
I also enjoy, I confess, dropping little hints along the way, just enough that everyone knows I'm up to something, but nobody can quite figure out exactly what I'm up to. I want the reveal to be epic and glorious. I want the love that comes busting through, right down to the tiniest details, to overwhelm the space with goodness.
God does the same.
See, God has been scheming since "in the beginning." Even when things were "very good," God knew He wasn't done yet because they weren't perfect. A perfect God doesn't settle for "very good;" He wants everything to be perfect, just as He is perfect.
Along the way, He's been dropping hints. Through prophets. Through kings. Through leaders. Through lay folks. Through prostitutes and slave girls and a height-challenged tax collector. Through twelve men who couldn't have been more different, but who were brought together by the One thing they had in common. Through a little baby in a manger, crying under a bright morning star. Through nail-pierced hands dripping blood from a Cross. From an empty tomb with the stone rolled away and the grave clothes folded, a major indicator that God wasn't done yet.
Through rubble and restoration. Through parted seas and promised lands. Through darkest of days and a sun that doesn't set.
Through it all, God has been dropping hints about what's coming, about what He's working on. About the plan secretly unfolding before our very eyes, but beyond our comprehension.
Waiting...waiting until that day when we who see through a glass but dimly suddenly see in full color, a reveal that will be both epic and glorious. A love that will come busting through, illuminating everything down to the tiniest little detail, and overwhelm our sacred space with goodness.
Revelation says it's coming. It says that when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the secrets of God, which have been dribbled throughout His story by the prophets, will be revealed (10:7).
We're gonna know. We're going to finally know and see and understand...and not be able to stand. We're going to see how the threads that we've been trying to follow have been woven all this time into a beautiful tapestry that is God's glory. It's going to make sense, and our dim glass is going to become a kaleidoscope, with all the colors swirling together in mesmerizing beauty.
It's coming. It's so coming. And it's going to be good.
No, it's going to be more than that. It's going to be very good.
Nope, it's going to be even more than that.
It's going to be perfect.
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