God's saving power

" Who would have thought God's saving power would look like this?" Isaiah 53:1

God seems to specialise in achieving outcomes through ways we just don't expect. The Bible is full of examples that we are now familiar with but are actually quite outrageous when we stop and think about them. This chapter of Isaiah is a beauty!

Surely God has not done anything else quite like the Jesus story. What an extraordinary way to bring salvation. No one would have expected God to bring reconciliation by crushing his own son with pain (vs 10).

Today in the church we still try to put God in a box. We think we understand him. But he still does things that astound us. Maybe we should expect the unexpected. Maybe we should expect him to do things differently to our expectations and through different people to whom we would choose.

Maybe I still expect God to work in defined parameters in my life too. Maybe the expression of God's saving power in my life should look quite different to how I expect it to look.

God, forgive me for trying to put you in a box, for trying to make you conform to my small mind's understanding of your ways. Open my eyes to be surprised at what you are doing through your people.