In Genesis, Sarai is certainly surprised by God. After becoming Abraham and Sarah, God promises the couple a child. At separate times, they both laugh at God when he tells them they will have a child. They are too old, too far beyond child raising to even consider it possible. But in the end, God gets the real laugh. He gives them Isaac and the nations.
In my Mi Casa group at church, we are talking about doing the 30 day surprise me challenge. Terry Esau wrote a book about his experience with this and encourages churches to try it. UBC had planned to before the death of Kyle Lake, but got a little waylaid by the aftermath of that situation. So now we are going to actually try it within our house groups. I actually read Terry's book and did the challenge back when I was a Baylor freshman, but did a bad job documenting it and don't actually remember how it worked out. I just remember doing it and reading the book! This time, I'm faithful in God's ability to surprise us in big ways if we only ask daily. Sarah and Abraham learned this and I'm hoping that we can too.
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