Have you ever been pleasantly surprised? I mean, wonderfully blown-away-knock-your-socks-off surprised? According to the Webster Online Dictionary, to be surprised is to be struck with "wonder and amazement especially because [of something] unexpected," and if we stop to think about how a loving God could love a sinful world and send His only begotten son to redeem its citizens, then that would qualify as a surprise. Frankly, if some of us were God we would not have done it.
But God didn't just stop there. Having made it possible for us to be reconciled to Himself through Christ, He didn't simple leave us to fend for ourselves. He adopted us and made us heirs and joint-heirs with His dear son (Romans 8:17), and so His entire provisions are open to us for our inheritance. As the Apostle Paul ponders the magnitude of our blessings, he writes, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him" (1 Cor. 2:9, KJV). In other words, our minds cannot being to comprehend all the things that God has prepared for those who love Him. Try to imagine moving from being a servant of sin to being a child of the Most High God; from eternal damnation to eternal life. God "raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come [H]e might shew the exceeding riches of [H]is grace in [H]is kindness toward us through Christ Jesus" (Ephesians 2:6,7).
Though we cannot comprehend it all with our natural minds, we are not left in the dark. Paul reminds us, "God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God" (1 Cor. 2:10). It stands to reason therefore, that to get a glimpse of what God has in store for us we need to be walking in the Spirit. As we yield ourselves to Him, and as He brings about God's purposes in our lives, we will realize that we have not even scratched the surface of all that He has in store for us. It is then that we will be surprised at the wonder of it all; at how much we are truly love by God and the extent to which He has gone to demonstrate that love.
Why not allow the Spirit of God to show you those things?
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