Unexpected

2 Kings 5:1-19

Naaman goes to Elisha to be healed of his leprosy. But what Elisha tells him to do isn't what Naaman expected. Naaman expected to be taken care of in a certain way, but that's not what happened. Naaman was furious, and he wasn't going to obey Elisha. His servant talks him into it, and he is healed. The power of God is revealed through his obedience. Naaman almost missed being healed and meeting the living God because God didn't work in the way Naaman expected.

God doesn't fit into our nice neat little boxes. He doesn't work in the ways we think he should. God is completely beyond our ability to comprehend. The common phrase is," Want to hear God laugh? Tell Him your plans." God doesn't adapt Himself to our plans. He works in ways that are completely unexpected, beyond anything we would even have considered expecting. We see the awesomeness of God where we least expect it, like Naaman. The question is, am I going to ignore God when He works unexpectedly?

January 26, 2011

Dot to Dot

A lot of the time I feel like my life is a dot to dot. I know God is working, and I can see the dots, but I don't know how they connect. Me trying to figure it out doesn't work so well either. I think God is trying to make a duck, when the picture is really a boat. The thing is, I really have no idea how the dots connect. But God does. Waiting and trusting are two of the things I struggle with most. So I get to learn about them a lot. Because I can't see how the dots connect, I have to wait and trust that God knows what he's doing, knows what picture he wants to draw in my life. He's my everything. I can see that there are dots, but I have no idea how they connect. But that's ok. I know my God knows what He's doing.