Riding the Waves, Unknown Expectations

It's not always easy to report on politics every day. The tolerance level ebbs and flows, especially in this precipice period. Instead of fighting hard against the flow when the grace lifts for a day or two, I've been resigning myself to resting. The happenings we are experiencing seem to come in quickly and raise our morale and then they sometimes suddenly vanish and to look at something political again almost feels like staring at something putrid that I shouldn't be. I suppose we are riding the waves. They come in with a splash and then we are left with days of near silence and my tolerance level wanes. Politics are not exactly pleasant. It was Trump himself that said it was a mean career. He knew how corrupt a cesspool DC yet subjected himself to this cruel battle for the people. As anons, I feel that many of us have done our duty, and those seeds planted, while not being received by everyone, are blooming and expanding. Like an avalanche moving down the mountain, the momentum only gains in speed and power. I guess what I am trying to say is, that don't force yourself to do things when you don't feel God giving you the grace to do them. Not that we shouldn't work hard and fight back with everything we have. It's only to say, don't overly torture yourself with a movie that's not always meant for you. God's going to take care of us. On that note, there is something else that I've been dwelling on. 

God seems to come in ways that most people don't expect. Even the religious and the so-called learned people become so hardened that they refuse to see something new that God is doing. 

When God delivered in Exodus, they did not expect this. 

When Jesus Christ came and confronted the religious authorities, it astonished them at what He actually did. No one thought he would sacrifice himself. His own disciples believed he would become a conquering king. Even when he predicted he would die, they simply couldn't see it. 

Only the humble can find themselves open to the wild and untamed actions that God often takes. Those who feel they know everything about what God might do, often end up the fool.

In that same vein:

So many of us had our expectations on how each of these political moments would work out yet they didn't happen the way we might have imagined. A song Trump often plays that speaks so poignantly into this: You can't always get what you want, but you get what you need.  I think in hindsight we will look back and truly feel this way. I don't claim to know exactly what God is doing, other than tearing down Babylon, but I hope to have a teachable spirit that doesn't feel he can put an uncontainable unpredictably wild but good God in a box. Certainly, He has more surprises up His sleeve than we might imagine. Wasn't it Paul who said:

But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

Selah

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