Reflections

I stuck me during my devotional time that God just refuses to fit any mould.

1 Corinthians 1:22 - 24 (NIV) 22 Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

The Jews expected the Saviour to be proven by signs and wonders like the time of Moses. The Greeks expect that God should be revealed by incredible eloquence of thought and wisdom. But God refuses to meet their expectations. God will be God and He will do as He pleases.

It is we who need to adjust our expectations. Those who fail to adjust their expectations and demands will be doomed by their narrow-mindedness to miss God. May we re-examine our paradigms humbly. It could be that we are already missing God in some areas because we have fixed some paradigms which God never asked us to.