With a View to an Administration

“He made known to us the mystery of His will according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable [‘of God’] to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth.” Ephesians 1:9-10

Mystery is simply what God knows and understands and He wants us to understand and know what He knows. He makes known the mystery of His will to His messengers and then to all those who receive their message. This is His kind intention. He purposed to reveal this kind intention to us in Christ. What a wonderful thought; Christ is the Father’s kind intention towards us. This kind intention is God’s love, grace and mercy to us.

But in revealing to us the mystery of His will He does so with a view in mind. As Christian parents, in all your dealings with your children, you are to have in view, their maturity. Likewise, God, in all His dealings with us both individually and collectively, as members of His body, has in view our maturity. (Eph 4:11-16) In the big picture of things, of which our maturity in Christ is absolutely essential, what does God have in view in revealing to us the mystery of His will? His administration that is suitable to the fullness of the times. Right now we are rapidly approaching the concluding part of the fullness of the times. God is raising up an administration in the world that is suitable for these times that we are living in. It is beyond what was in the book of Acts and the Epistles. Nothing ever came to full maturity during these times.

Also we understand that God’s administration is not to be relevant to the world. Rather it is to be suitable to God or ‘of God’. This is a big point to understand. His administration is His church, the body of Christ. This is what Jesus came to specifically build that not even the gates of hell can overpower it. (Matt 16:18) Jesus did not come to build anything but the administration of God the Father. Therefore in all of the Father’s dealings in our life, His intention is that we might participate in His administration that is suitable for these times. We are to live in and respond according to what God is doing and building now. We are to join and know our work in the administration that He has in view.