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Daily Java: We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" — but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. (1 Corinthians 2:6-10)

When the Passion came out, Hollywood said such a movie would never sell and Mel Gibson would be broke and never work in Hollywood again. To their surprise, it was a smash.

Hollywood  said, okay, we’ll make some “Christian” movies too to tap into that obviously big audience. So they made The Nativity, a boring and badly acted movie about a whiny little Mary.

It busted. Hollywood said, what is the deal? The Passion was so big, why didn’t our offering do well? The could not understand that the mind of man couldn’t understand the mind of God. What they offered was nothing more than uneducated surface stuff.

Mel Gibson was a Christian. He understood Jesus because he identified with him. In fact, it was his hand that held the nail as it was driven into the Jesus character’s hand.

Hollywood, on the other hand, was made up of people who were not Christians and were against all of the things that Christians stood for. They had no idea why people went to see the Passion. All they saw was a possible cash cow.

Every movie Hollywood makes that has a “Christian” theme flops because they do not know the mind of God.

God’s secret wisdom. To those who are outside the grace of God it is indeed secret. They cannot grasp it, cannot understand it, cannot figure it out. All they see is a bunch of people who, when they get angry, “they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

I read of a couple of singers who hated it when Bible thumpers come to their concerts.

The mind of God is so far from the mind of the world that to the world it looks like some kind of secret thing. They do not understand it so they try to get rid of it.

But God knows and nothing that we have seen yet can tell us of the greatness of his love and what he has prepared for us. In one way. But in another, if we are in him, we see a glimpse of it.

God has such greatness in store for us if we love him and are called according to his promises.