WHO’D HAVE THOUGHT IT!

1 John 3:1 (NIV) See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!

Do you ever have any ‘who’d have thought it’ moments? Well I had one yesterday when I found myself being asked to look after a very large Rottweiler dog!  We’d bought a heavy piece of furniture and just when we needed to lift it into the car a man came by and helped load it in the boot and I said to Chris the “Lord sent him to us.” Then when we arrived home I stood thinking ‘Lord now I need someone else to help Chris lift it in the house.’ At that exact moment our friend walked round the corner with his dog and he was happy to help but it meant I had to look after his Rottweiler dog outside, on my own, while they took the heavy box in the house!! I hadn’t expected that!😊

So I was stood there holding tightly to his lead, while he paced agitatedly back and forth, thinking if this big dog suddenly takes off  he’ll take me with him! But all was well and I’m still alive to tell the tale.🤣

I think God has some ‘who’d have thought it moments’, some surprises, for us all this year. It’s when we’ve asked for something and He goes over and above our expectations because He’s the God of exceedingly, abundantly, above and beyond!(Eph 3:20) He’s the God of feeding 5,000 and then having 12 big baskets left over. He’s the One who didn’t only part an ocean but He drowned all the Israelites’ enemies so they didn’t even have to fight them!

I wonder what you’ve been hoping and praying for so far this year, or last year, because whatever it is, start having a sense of God being involved, sending people at the exact moment you need them, but even more than that, believe for something big coming your way, some over and above answers to your prayers. God is an over the top God, who lavishes His love on us. 

Let’s not limit Him by small thinking but lift the top off our expectations. Listen to what Isaiah says Isaiah 30:18 (Amp, Classic Edition) And therefore the Lord (earnestly) waits (expecting, looking, and longing) to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you…Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who (earnestly) wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him (for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship)!

Wow! Can you picture God lifting Himself off His throne to help us? That’s how God is and how He wants us to be too. God wants us to be expecting something from Him and it wont be small. We’ll be saying “Who’d have thought it!”, it’ll be so good. We thank You for it Lord.😊Amen.