Unexpected?

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--> --> I have heard it said so many times "God is always there in the unexpected storms". Which of course I believe to be true. As I sit here watching the rain coming down for the 5th straight day, I started thinking about that.
This storm was expected - it’s been "forecast" and the news channels have been telling us all about it - Be prepared! It’s coming! It’s expected - you know it’s coming. So why are we surprised? Why do we act shocked at what is going on around us?

The storm is or was expected - Could it be that the consequences of the storm is what is NOT expected? The flooding? The mudslides? The funnel clouds? Is that the unexpected “storms” that throw us off? I can’t help but think so.

As a Christian I have been taught that the storms will come – Be prepared! Get yourself ready! And yet when they come I am so surprised and shocked – So I have to ask myself why?? I know they are coming so why does it catch me off guard!?

Its all the unexpected consequences that I fail to prepare myself for. And yet as I look back over the “unexpected” times I can see very clearly just how much my God has been ever present. I can see how much He has provided and protected me – even when I couldn’t see it or feel it.

So don’t just be prepared for the storms-be prepared for the consequences of the storms because that can be the unexpected. But most important hold onto the only Anchor that matters – that is what sustains us through the storms & the consequences.

“My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, But wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.

On Christ the solid Rock I stand, All other ground is sinking sand; All other ground is sinking sand.

When darkness seems to hide His face, I rest on His unchanging grace. In every high and stormy gale, My anchor holds within the veil.

On Christ the solid Rock I stand, All other ground is sinking sand; All other ground is sinking sand.

His oath, His covenant, His blood, Support me in the whelming flood. When all around my soul gives way, He then is all my Hope and Stay.

On Christ the solid Rock I stand, All other ground is sinking sand; All other ground is sinking sand.

When He shall come with trumpet sound, Oh may I then in Him be found. Dressed in His righteousness alone, Faultless to stand before the throne.”

Fautless - a great word - don't you think :)