Surprised!

When Abraham and Sarah were well past the child bearing age, Sarah tells her husband she is going to have a child.  The Scripture speaks of the moment with the words, "The Lord dealt with Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had promised.  Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age..."  (Genesis 21:1-2)  God certainly seems to take great delight in doing the unexpected, in bringing surprises into our lives, and in keeping His promises without fail.  And, of course, in the case of Abraham and Sarah, it is obvious that God is not bound by the calendar we hold so dear.  

Many times we end up taking the route of Abraham.  We know what God has promised.  We wait for Him to act and then when too much time passes, we find ourselves taking matters in our own hands.  We do not wait on God very easily.  When Abraham and Sarah had their son, Isaac, there was no doubt it was a work of God for those two were not just old, but they were very old.  It would seem that sometimes God acts the way He does to show us that He is the One who is doing what He promised to do.   

All of us know about the surprising work of God in our lives.  Maybe it is not something like having a child late in life, but when we look back over the span of the years, we surely can see God doing what seemed impossible at the moment.  Anyone who cannot look back and realize that God has given far more to us than we ever expected or deserved needs to put on a different pair of glasses.  His blessings are not only numerous each day, but they are often more than just a little surprising.