“You must be born again. The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”– Jesus, John 3:7b-8

It’s one of the things I love most about God. He’s mysterious. If God is God, shouldn’t there be some things about Him that are beyond us?

It’s a mystery that God can change a human heart. Renew our thinking. Implant a power within us to live right. Snatch us from the clutches of hell. Join us eternally unto Himself. Walk us through death. And take us to heaven when we die.

The telephone, by the way, has always been somewhat of a mystery to me. How I can pick up a small machine and talk to someone in Slovakia like they were sitting across the table boggles my mind. But I’ll answer if you ring. I trust the mystery, even if I don’t understand it fully. There are smarter people who understand it and make it happen—and that’s good enough for me. I don’t have to know everything about it to experience its benefits.

If you’re someone who has to have everything figured out before it’s worth trusting, you’re going to have some real problems with God, precisely because He is . . . GOD. Ultimately, the humility that leads to salvation is the recognition of His “beyond-ness,” His majesty, His mystery.

Authentic Christianity is not mindless—He’ll give you what you need to know to trust Him. But somewhere along the way we have to acknowledge our ignorance. He’s smarter than we are, and He (and He alone) can make salvation and life happen.