A mystery in plain sight

This past Friday we celebrated Epiphany, the end of the 12 days of Christmas. Christmas was a welcomed distraction from the ugliness of current public discourse. Pastor Phil Kniss suggested that in our society now, our politicians act like they have the one right answer for this country. They downplay any sense of mystery; the answer is clear and nothing is hidden. Matthew 2:1-12 and Isaiah 60:1-6, and Ephesians 3:1-12 seem to support this idea that things have had light shed on them, and we can see the plan of God clearly. Jesus has been revealed! But Pastor Phil said that mystery remains. The apostle Paul makes numerous references to his fear in preaching the mystery of God. So what do we do with this mystery? Push it away? Walk toward it to embrace it? Paul, in Ephesians 3, says that he is a servant of the mystery that is the gospel of Jesus Christ. What would it mean if we understood ourselves to be servants to the mystery? Can we embrace the mystery without becoming cynical of our our inability to master the Gospel? Can we give all that we know of ourselves to all that we know of the gospel of Jesus Christ?