Waiting on the eternal, collective "Ahhhh ..."

Jesus tells us "the time is coming when everything that is covered will be revealed, and all that is secret will be made known."

That should be good news for postmoderns and others who have a great many questions concerning Christian spirituality.

When we have questions about about matters of faith, it is a healthy thing. Someone once said, "Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith." If that be true, questions should neither be feared -- as if having questions alone would signal an abandonment -- nor should they be revered -- as if having questions means you are more enlightened than others.

After all, it is God who gives us a brain.

The New Testament is filled with questions, answers to questions, and questions left unanswered. The Apostle Paul, who answered a great many practical and rhetorical questions, looked forward to the day when God answered all questions: "For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. "Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known." (1 Corinthians 13:12)

What will the revelation of eternity be like? Will it be a cosmic form of "Jeopardy?" Neither Jesus nor Paul says, "All questions will be answered," but instead both suggest of a time when we receive revelation without questions.

Maybe, as a friend of mine once suggested, the most common utterance will be something along the lines of an eternal, collective, "Ahhhh ... now, I see."

Then, the church universal can truly proclaim, "I once was blind, but now I see."

Grace and peace ...