So correctly assumed, the more complicated the mystery, the more rewarding the prize; the more tenacious a mystery, the more beautiful the satisfaction and joy.
Therefore, the only possibilities it seems that anyone would quit a life of misery in pursuit of a mystery is if 1) the mystery seems too unbearable or 2) the end result is nowhere near rewarding enough.
Ah, but the joy of discovery is a privilege for "It is God's privilege to conceal things and the king's privilege to discover them." (Proverbs 25:2) And no matter how hard or "unbearable it seems, God informs us that nothing will be more than we can handle.(1 Cor. 10:13)
Its almost as if to explore the mystery is our job.
"To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God..." (Mark 4:11)
God is the mystery; a beautiful completion of knowledge, truth, love, and reward that can take a large quantity of time, heartache, and self analyzing to understand and comprehend in a small portion. our job is to live this life discovering the beauty, joy, and satisfaction of who He is in all forms:
Through Jesus Christ, his emotions, his knowledge, his beauty, his imagination, his creativity, his perfection, his plans, and his finale.
The end result is far greater than any misery that has to be endured in a life discovering the mystery.
The most devastating account is that people, even with a reward of perfection, still fall away from a discovery of the life of Jesus, and focus on a life of the world. We have become blind and look towards others to help us through these tedious and wearisome chases instead of looking in the right direction. Men will only lead us astray. (Matt 15:14) Hards time will only become harder, and before the finale is seen we fall away. (Matt 13:21)
The reason for never truly understanding? Our methods are wrong:
"Call to me, and I will answer you, AND show you great and mighty things, which you do not know."( Jer 33:3)
Granted, a fight for a mystery with a reward so compelling as this will bring misery that seems unbearable in forms of mockery, persecution, and heart ache. ( Luke 21:12) But God gives confidence that this will turn out to be a good thing. "..It will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony."(Luke 21:13)
And although no reward seems worth any form of misery, when you do taste it:
a misery becomes a joyous thing.
" Taste and see that the Lord is good..." ( Psalms 34:8) "and without controversy great is the mystery of godliness."(1Tim 3:16)
