You know you live in New England when its a freakish snow and ice storm on Tuesday, close to 60 and sunny on Wednesday, and 23 and a Northeaster dropping a foot of snow today. That’s life in New England. It takes commitment to live here… or resignation. Commitment if you are going to be happy.
Life, I have been learning, is very much like New England weather: as in it is rather unpredictable. That doesn’t change when you become a Christian. Heck, in some ways life becomes even more unpredictable!
I have been learning that while God doesn’t change, He is unpredictable… or maybe it is more theologically pc to say He appears to be unpredictable. He wasn’t kidding when he said to Isaiah,
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:8-9, NIV).
He doesn’t seem to go about bringing about the blessings He promises the way we think. Growing our faith comes through adversity. Growing our love comes from experiences that tests its limits. Growing trust in God comes from being in seemingly impossible situations where you have no way out but God. Sure, sometimes it is very clear what God is doing and where He is taking you. Other times, it is just as impossible to see as it is for me to see the other side of the street right now because of the blowing snow. Sometimes His presence is as clear and warm as a summer day, other times He is quiet and things seem as cold and dark as a long winter’s night. And like New England weather, these times can come and go quickly, rapidly, and certainly unexpectedly.
If that is your experience, you’re not nuts, or crazy, or unique. You are living the normal Christian life.
Learning To Be Full Of Grace And Truth. 
No offense, but I’m not coming to visit you anytime soon. 🙂
God really is unpredictable. Take heart though, He’s often unpredictable in a really good way. His ways are so much better than ours. It doesn’t always feel that way, but it’s true. Sometimes it can be really hard to tell the difference between an attack from the enemy and God actually really working some good on your behalf in ways we can’t yet see. The difference there is the good, everything God does is for your good, your benefit.
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Very true IB. Don’t worry, I’m not losing faith or anything. Truthfully, I seem to work best in the mess. And I love seeing how God continually shows up and turns things around inside out and upside down and brings His love, grace, blessing, favor, provision, and power in such a way that you are left stunned with gratitude and love and scream with joy at how God did it… Not unlike how I went from crying to losing my voice from gleeful shouting as Tom Brady and the Patriots came back from 25 points behind to win the Super Bowl. Soooo epic! 😊👍😜
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Maybe to clarify His ways are unpredictable but His results are very predictable.
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Really appreciate this comment.
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As did I. 😊
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Reblogged this on INSPIRATION with an ATTITUDE and commented:
Hey, Dan! That’s a GREAT analogy!! (But can you send some of that white stuff my way? It’s supposed to be up in the 70’s this weekend and I think winter skipped us…) Super read this one!!
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I will gladly send this foul stuff anywhere. Just give me an address! 😜 and thank you so much for your encouragement and the reblog! 👍👍👍
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See a seed of corn,must be buried in the ground before it grows. . . Malcolm and Alwyn.
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