How big would God be if you had everything about Him figured out? How awesome is He if you know 100% of how HIStory unfolds? To me, this would mean that I serve a pretty small God. If my 32 year old brain of average intelligence has the almighty God figured out, then how powerful can He really be.
The truth is, the more I learn about God and His ways the more He surprises me. Almost daily God does something unexpected in my life. He calls me to do something greater then I could have ever imagined. He teaches me something that I know my average brain shouldn't be able to comprehend. He allows trials and discipline to come and stretch my own faith in unimaginable ways.
One of the big reasons Jesus walked this earth was to show mankind an accurate picture of our heavenly Father. To show this almost everything about Jesus is unexpected. How many kings are born to virgin, unmarried moms, in dirty inns with animals and little fanfare (well except for a heavenly choir of scary angels)? From Jesus' first breath to His last, He never did what others thought He was supposed to do. How special would He really have been if He played by our rules and followed the messiah playbook by the letter? Personally, I couldn't follow a Savior like that. An expected God is a small God.
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