The Mystery

What is a mystery?  

Is it a betrayal? Is it a race against time? Is it a vast secret? Is it a hidden meaning? Is it something tucked away that we will never find? Is it something not understood? Is it something unexplained?  Is it beyond anyone's understanding?

Hmmm, makes you think, doesn't it?

1941 Charlotte is smuggled into Paris right in the smack of this huge war, seeking to find Alain. Is he her father that she never knew? Has he got a secret? Could her dad, Alain, be a friend of Hitler? Could he have a vast fortune tucked away somewhere? What sort of man could he be? It just doesn't bear thinking about.

Struggling to find the answer, Charlotte is hustled from town to town seeking and yearning to find the whereabouts of her elusive father.

1943 Charlotte has traced him into the middle of Paris, working her way with a vast amount of underground assistance to find out that indeed, her Dad is the elusive Alain, and is the main target and linchpin of France's liberation. He has gained huge access to high-ranking Axis officials and is working his way across France in huge liberation mode.

Alain ended up organising air-drops of weapons and supplies and coordinating huge rescues of downed fliers and parachute landings.

Was Charlotte pleased with her dad? Was she in awe of Him? What sort of future could they possibly have?

She never did find out what happened to her father; he had to keep his vast secret from his family and the authorities, and so their lives never clashed. They never met, but through it all, the war was finally over - many perished, but many were saved. 

It was certainly a horrible time -  a time when we hope and pray we will never have to go through again.

So many times we go through trauma and huge problems in all of our lives and times. We plough on regardless of the consequences of all things that have happened to us. We struggle, we grapple, we wrestle, we scuffle, and yet we fight on - we have to survive - that is life.

So why is life like this, and why can't we live perfect, happy, and fulfilling lives right to the end? It's hard, isn't it, to live life like we are teetering on the edge of a huge drop-over.

Unfortunately, sin came in and destroyed a perfect life, and things would never be the same again. Sin crept in through poor old Adam and Eve, and because of that, their very relationship with God was broken, and they began to die physically. Their bodies took on the ageing process just like ours do, and they began to die, slowly at first and then faster and faster towards the end.

When we are born, we all seem to be saddled with original sin caused by Adam and Eve's big hiccup. We are all related in one form or another, which is why the sin effect is evident in us all throughout history.

We are born sinners, and if we don't make a wise and shattering decision, we end up dying sinners, far away from God our Father, and doomed to a life of everlasting torment.

Romans 3:23 says, "We ALL have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." So none of us is perfect, not one. And we never will be, not ever, we are totally and utterly doomed to a life of utter torment and destruction. When we die, we will be cast into the lake of fire to live eternally in hell.

Well, that's how it was meant to be because sin entered the world all those years ago. We all have sinned and fallen short of God's amazing love.

That was, of course, until the very fact that Jesus came into the world to save us, to give His life instead of ours and take our sins and chuck them far away, never to be seen and heard of again.

Jesus Himself said, "I am the Way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me" - you can read it yourself in John chapter 14 and verse 6. Jesus is the only way to come to the Father. Jesus was born, lived, and died just to take away our sins. He took them with Him on that cruel cross and exterminated them for us - all we have to do is to accept His amazing love for us and then ask Him to come into our lives and live through us.

When you think about it, Jesus was the only one who has come and been the sacrifice for sins - he was and will ever be the only sinless person to have walked the face of the earth.

Jesus is the only way to the Father in Heaven, regardless of what others may say and who people worship.

Jesus' death on Calvary was a sacrifice for our sins, and if we decide to BELIEVE and have FAITH, then these two things are critical for our salvation. Jesus died and He bled to death for us, taking the sins of the world on His very life, but only for those who believe and have faith in Him. 

It is believing in the very death of Christ for our sins that we receive eternal life. Ephesians 2 says, "For it is by GRACE you have been saved through FAITH - and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast."

God bless you all this week, and may you all be so much aware of what Jesus did for all of us on that cross all those years ago.

All characters appearing in this blog are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental