Unexpected | Week 2

Last week we kicked this Christmas Series off speaking about the unexpected story of Judah and Tamar. We understood that unexpected does not me not possible. The whole story of Christmas was and is unexpected. Although foretold thousand’s of years prior to it actually happening, most people simply longed for and hoped for the day that it would really come to pass. There were 400 silent years of no heavenly communication to man. Then we have this unexpected star that appears to an unexpected group called Shepards. We have the great prophesied Messiah, the savior of a nation, not being born in a palace but in a barn where animals are kept. Certainly unexpected in the minds of human imagination, but right in the place of God’s prophesied plan. 

Life has a way of throwing the unexpected at us and upon careful examination, God’s word is full of the unexpected. But there is nothing in scripture that should catch us in an unexpected way. Joshua 1:8 (8) "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Psalm 119:15-16 (15) I will meditate on Your precepts, And contemplate Your ways. (16) I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word. Acts 17:11 (11) These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily [to find out] whether these things were so. Charles C. Ryrie said, “The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.” Dwight L. Moody “Merely reading the Bible is no use at all without we study it thoroughly, and hunt it through, as it were, for some great truth.” When we begin to mine scripture and search it with a ready heart the Holy Spirit begins to enlighten us and bring understanding.