Want To Miss What God Is Doing? Decide What God Should Do.

Preached last night on the road-to-Emmaus encounter in Luke 24. Great story about missing God. Two disciples, leaving Jerusalem, talking on the road about Jesus’ death that weekend and the reports about his missing body.

Then Jesus shows up and starts walking with them.

But they don’t know it’s him.

They seem to have decided the resurrection talk is foolishness, holding on to the disappointment that’s inevitable when the man you thought was going to lead a revolt against Rome ends up getting executed.

And now, that same man has risen from the dead and is walking right next to them. And they have no idea.

Lesson? The best way to miss what God is doing is to misunderstand what God wants to do.

These guys had decided (for God) what God should do. They were wrong. And because of it, they almost completely missed the incredible thing God had done.

Truth is, God may show up in my life and do something fabulous. But if I’m blinded by disappointment that He didn’t do what I wanted, I’ll never see it.

Here’s to letting God do what He wants to do, how He wants to do it. And here’s to hoping I don’t miss it.