Magnificent Surprises

God knows that we would be terrified if He allowed us to see all of the battles that lay ahead in life all at once, so He leads us by the way of the wilderness, the way that seems so dreadfully long. If He let us see the giants ahead of time we would most certainly run and hide. Not only are we protected from seeing all of the giants that we may face, we also can’t see all of the tremendous surprised that await each of us around unknown bends in the road.

The difficulty that comes with the long route is staying focused and on track, because sometimes we take our eyes off of the Lord and forget that we are led like the Israelites in the wilderness. The Lord is the cloud that leads us by day and a fire in the darkest night that guides and illuminates our path. The only thing that will derail us is if we stop following the spirit, go our own way, or park ourselves and cease from moving. Yet, if we keep moving toward the things of God we will continually be surprised by our Father’s goodness.

After years on this long route, suddenly my heavenly Father surprised me and took me around an unforeseen bend in the road when out of the blue I sat on the couch this past weekend with my dad watching the fairytale movie, Enchanted. Most young girls watch fairy tales with their dad, but I never had that chance. I watched my father walk away when my parents divorced. Yet somehow all of these years later to my utter surprise, the Lord recreated the past.

I was even more surprised when my dad purchased a car for Chloe, my eighteen-year-old daughter, offered to drive with us to LA this summer where she will attend college and then this past weekend drove here on her graduation weekend to deliver the car.

After following the cloud all of these years, and having been exasperated by the route many times, I am still magnificently amazed by the Lord’s secret advances, and hidden surprises that pop out of the blue and captivate my attention as if I was on a wild roller coaster ride at Disney Land.