If God did everything as we expected, in the manner we anticipated, then there would be no adventure in the Christians life.
Five years ago, this was our family Christmas card. We didn’t know what was next. God led us unexpectedly to The Red Brick Church and we’re having a blast.
While the curves of the Christian life can be a little scary, we can be thankful the Christian life is more like a Tijuana taxi ride than driving through Nebraska.
Dr. David Martyn Lloyd-Jones summarizes:
“It is right to have desires, intense desires and wishes and longings, but always in all things it is right that we should be entirely and completely submissive to the will of God. And therefore this Christians life is full of romances, and full of glorious surprises, prohibitions, restraints, hindrances. Then, suddenly, and in a most unexpected manner, the thing we have wished for and prayed for submissively is granted to us in God’s time and in God’s way. There is only one place of safety; there is only one place of peace; there is only one place of perpetual joy, and we find it when we are entirely submitted in all things to the will of God (Lloyd-Jones, Vol 1, 203-204, emphasis added).”
Can you think of a time when God suddenly directed you in a way that you didn’t expect?
