God Uses The Unexpected

If your average day is anything like mine, each day has a list of routine things that must be done. There are also new items on the agenda that you plan or need to do. Then there are always the unexpected items that pop up throughout the day. The routine items we usually don’t give much thought about and the planed items we generally have given some forethought to. It’s usually the unexpected items that show up each day that generally through the proverbial “Monkey Wrench” into our plans and can through us off our pre-determined path.

It’s not really what these unexpected situation do to our plans that determines how they affect us but how we respond to them. The unexpected is going to happen. It’s simply a fact of like. Remember in James 4:12-14 we read “Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.” (ESV)

 
There are basically two ways a Christian can respond to the unexpected. Either by allowing the Holy Spirit to guide us in how we respond and deal with the unexpected OR allow our human nature to take us down the wrong path. Both courses have consequences and outcomes.
 
When we allow our human nature to control us we open ourselves up to frustration, anger and unwanted stress but most of all we allow sin to enter into the situation. On the other hand, if we allow the Holy Spirit guide us, we open the door for God to take control of the situation and handle it. When I say “handle it” I mean not only the unexpected situation but how it affects us.  This course of action allows us to have peach and joy in our lives as we deal with the unexpected.

Now I’m not saying that all unexpected situation are going to be fun but if we allow the Holy Spirit to walk with us as go through them, they will be profitable for us.

 
God likes to use the Unexpected to help us grow in faith and strengthen our Christian walk with Him. 2 Timothy 3:16  tells us, ”All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,” (ESV)
 
Just like His Word, God uses the unexpected to help us stay in alignment with His Will for our lives.