If life was just simpler, we reason. More predictable! But it isn’t. Life is like a wild roller coaster ride of hairpin curves and diving dips.
Don’t we all live with a fear of the unknown? The eerie inconsistency that keeps us living on the edge of our chairs? And yet it’s that inconsistency in which God had his finest hour. Never did what is right involve itself so intimately with what is wrong.
God on a cross. Humanity at its worst. Divinity at its best! God doesn’t gasp in amazement at the depth of our faith or the depth of our failures. He knows the condition of the world and he loves it just the same. Just when we find a place where God would never be, like a cross— we look again and there he is…in the flesh! Inconsistent surprises. Maybe the next time a surprise comes your way, you’ll see God in the middle of it.
