the name is, surprise!
I don’t know where I heard it first - but it has definitely stuck with me. The thought that was posted to my mind was that a name for the mystery of the universe, the God and King of all should be, “Surprise.” Seems fitting. A God who shows up in unlikely places: a bush on fire in the desert, in the belly of a whale, speaking through donkeys, and hanging out with sinners and tax collectors, a God who raises the dead, provides gallons of REALLY good wine at a local wedding and a God who when all the world is stirred up - surprise - ascends into heaven.
That is a God who should be called, Surprise. You never know when or where or even how such a God will show up.
It causes me to keep my eyes pealed. Keeps me alert. Grows my awareness and certainly opens my thoughts to God’s uncanny ability to speak and show Himself through and in the most unlikely circumstances.
When was the last time you sensed, Surprise?
Do you think someday when we’re “there” and we look back, we’ll be surprised that the times that God “surprised us” were not so much the times He showed up, but the times “we showed up” and noticed that he was there the whole time?
I wonder…
btw… is that Doug Jones and Gene Simmons in that facebook photo? Whaddup wit’ dat?
clearly - it is an issue of awareness… I think that we will be surprised at how little we are aware. For me that doesn’t discount our God of surprise - I think he definitely surprises us with His audacity; compassion; and even when and how he shows up in our lives.
btw - rock n roll all night; party every day!