God Predictable? No Way!

I think that the un-predictability of God is not only a fact.  I think it holds hope and warmth as well.

I know, I know.  The believer who prays and does not get the answer she/he has believed God would predictably give may feel as if the coldness of outer space has chilled the soul.  But. . .

What about the times when there seems to be zero hope, and God unpredictably intervenes and delivers someone from cancer or turns a battle on it's head or insinuates a breakthrough in medical research that saves millions of people from suffering?  Then the warmth we feel seems healing and hopeful.

Or not.  Usually when God provides such breakthroughs we take them for granted.  We don't feel gratitude, we feel resentment that God waited so long.

The folks that prattle on about "the promises of God" usually take just those verses they want out of context and pretend they are inviolate contracts that God has made with people with the "right kind of" faith.  What nonsense!

For people of faith, life is about adventure, uncertainty, despair, hope, and, through it all, a sense of agape' -- the profound, compassionated respect God gives to us and we are called to give one another.  Often it's up to us to follow the lead of agape' and stomp out human trafficking, child prostitution, human slavery and the like.  God really has given us the motivation and the tools.

What do you think?  Leave a comment about the unpredictable ways of God and let us know.