There’s a story of a master weaver who was secretly crafting a beautiful tapestry which told the history of the small hamlet where he lived. He told no one what he was doing, but spun from the most luminous and rarest of fibers. 

One day his apprentice caught a glimpse of the work, but not seeing the whole picture, rushed out and told his friends that the master weaver was working on a magical tapestry. The rumors started flying and the townspeople rushed to the weaver’s house demanding to see this magical cloth. But the weaver was not ready to share his incomplete work and wouldn’t let anyone see what he was doing. The crowd immediately started calling him a fraud and worse. Feeling like they had been deceived they stopped buying from his shop, shunned him in the marketplace and even his apprentice was too ashamed to go to the workshop.

One merchant from a neighboring town understood that true art cannot be rushed and he befriended the master weaver. He sat in silent encouragement and simply watched the weaver work. After several months, the tapestry was finished. The master weaver called the townspeople, without fanfare or false promises. The friendly merchant was given the privilege of unveiling the tapestry. The townspeople seemed to gasp all at once as they saw their own stories reflected in the glimmering threads of the gorgeous piece of cloth.

The merchant said, “You asked for a masterpiece, but you tried to claim it before it was finished. A seed buried in the earth is not a lie. It is a promise that, with time and patience, will bloom into a truth more beautiful than you could ever imagine.”

The Scriptures are like that seed. So many times, we read the Bible and say that is all we ever need to know. “If we needed to know anything else, God would have written it in the Word,” we are told. However, even the Scriptures tell us there is more.

Jesus said in John 16:12-13, “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth.” 

Paul understood this. Look how much more revelation Paul wrote in the New Testament after the gospels. However, several times even Paul lamented that he was unable to teach them everything he wanted to. 

The writer of Hebrews in writing about Jesus said, “of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.  For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.” (Hebrews 5:11-12) He goes on to say, “Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, ² of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. ³ And this we will do if God permits.” (Hebrews 6:1-3)

Holy Spirit has more revelations He wants to impart to us. Nothing that is against the Word, but more that completes it and brings it into fullness for us. But we have to be willing to wait until the perfect time for its unveiling. Then we must steward it well.

Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. ² Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful. (1 Corinthians 4:1-2)

The master weaver was a steward of his craft. Even though it brought pain to him and his household, he would not reveal his masterpiece until the proper moment. When Holy Spirit reveals something to us, we need to steward it, to grow it, to mull on it and meditate on it. And at the proper time and in the proper way, He will reveal to us what we are to do with this precious revelation He has entrusted to us. 

Jesus Himself has promised us there is more to come. Let’s ask for the more.