MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
November 19, 2025
God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration
The Purpose of God Creator’s Incarnation – Part 3
REVEALS ‘THE GREAT MYSTERY OF GODLINESS’ IN GOD’S AMAZING CONDESCENSION
“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.” 1 Tim. 3:16.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. . . . And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1: 1-3, 14.
From the inspired pen of God’s last-day messenger, Ellen G. White, we read (all emphases and bracketed words provided:
“It will be profitable to contemplate the divine condescension, the sacrifice, the self-denial, the humiliation, the resistance the Son of God encountered in doing His work for fallen man. Well may we come forth from contemplation of His great suffering exclaiming, Amazing Condescension!
“ANGELS marvel, as with intense interest they watch the Son of God DESCENDING step by step the path of humiliation. IT IS THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS. It is the GLORY OF GOD to conceal Himself and His ways, NOT BY KEEPING MEN IN IGNORANCE of heavenly light and knowledge, but by SURPASSING THE UTMOST CAPACITY OF MEN TO KNOW.
“Humanity can comprehend in part, but that is all that men can bear. The love of Christ passes knowledge. [see Eph. 3: 14-21]. THE MYSTERY OF REDEMPTION [preceded by the mystery of Creation] WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE MYSTERY—the unexhausted science and everlasting song of eternity. Well may [fallen, and eternally-redeemed] humanity exclaim, ‘Who can know God?’ We may, as Elijah, wrap our mantles about us, and listen to “hear the still small voice’ [of the Holy Spirit] of God.” – Bible
Echo, Apr. 30, 1894, p. 133.
Ah! The everlasting science and song of eternity! All who would be eternally-saved in these closing hours of earth’s probation, would have found unbounded joy in delving into and continually-unfolding, ever-fresh revealed factual truths of the science of redemption while singing its heavenly melodies to cheer them as they meet, head-on, the rapidly-approaching final, most perilous, faith-testing “hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth” (Rev. 3:10).
Remind yourselves. “If God in Christ through the Holy Spirit be with and in us, Who can be against us?”
To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.