Never seen Him coming....

Last November I posted about the woman at the well and how she never seen Jesus coming.... In light of the things that are happening now she seems to not be the only one. 

I know I never seen this coming. 
My life is flipped on its end once again, and I never seen it coming... 

Jesus did ....
He knew what was coming.

I was talking to the boys the other night about how so much is changing and how it's new to us. But God, oh He knew what was coming. It's not new to Him. 

I believe everything that happens, will happen for a reason. He knows whats going on. 
While the woman at the well never seen Jesus coming, He said, He needed to go to that well, on that day, at that time, to see that woman, He knew what was coming. 

I am so grateful for all the times I haven't seen Him coming and He has showed up in big, crazy way. 
I didn't see this virus coming. But God knew. If He knew that means there is a plan. I trust His plan. 

About the time He laid on my heart that we don't see Jesus coming, He also laid on my heart that I was going to have to lay down some things I love and just be with Him. Little did I know that not even 6 months later I stepped away from something very important to me, something that I love. I have spent a lot of time just talking to God, reading, asking.... Just being with Him. Taking care of my kids, loving on them. 

When the time came it was an easy decision to step away, but as time went on the enemy kept hammering on it as if I failed in someway. I got lost in his storm of not enough, I'm a failure, I am wasting my time because what I do really doesn't matter, I will never make a difference. I wonder if the lady at the well thought she could never make a difference, yet Jesus waited for just her. He knew what would happen. It seems, I was processing this all wrong, I have been worried, frustrated and upset and dragged down by the lies of the unseen enemy. 
When all along He had been preparing my heart. I just got caught up in the storm, instead of focusing on the Son, the one who seen all this coming, I much like Peter focused on the storm and not the one who calms the storm. I see you Jesus!  

So many times in the Bible we see the people confused as to why things were happening but God knew what was going to happen. We just don't see Him coming. 
The woman at the well never seen Jesus coming, Jonah never seen the fish coming that God sent, Noah never seen the flood coming that God was about to send, Peter never seen Jesus coming that morning after he had been fishing all night, Saul never seen Him coming on that dusty road, I could go on, to end up with I never seen Jesus coming and I never seen the virus coming, But He knew.

God knows, and He is going to use this to show up and show out. I read somewhere and I hate that I can't remember, but it said "Just because God has not shown up in a pillar of Fire, doesn't mean He is any less awesome".
We may just not yet see what He has planned, but He knows. 

I am so grateful for His vision and provision He has for us, for me. I am truly grateful that I don't see things coming, but God knows whats best. I bet Job never seen coming what happened to him. I love that story, because we see that God knew and in the end Job was blessed more than he could have imagined but more then that the Glory of God was seen. One of my favorite passages is in Daniel 1:2. 
Daniel says "And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah, into his hand(the king of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar) with some of the articles of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the articles into the treasure house of his god."

God gave His people, and some of the things His people thought to be most precious, into the hands of a pagan king. He knew what needed to happen now to set the stage for things to come. It may seem dark and crazy and we are focused on the storm but there is a reason and we may not understand but He knows. We don't see it, but God knows. I bet the king of Judah never seen this coming. But Daniel knew God was at work. 

So many times we never see Him coming, we get knocked down, or have the breath knocked out of us, but God knows what tomorrow brings. 

Tomorrow 1998 years ago, Mary wouldn't have seen it coming as she rolled up on the grave, but when she found Jesus was ALIVE again, she like the lady at the well RAN to tell. I pray that when Jesus shows up in a way we never seen coming, I pray we RUN and tell the world what Jesus has done. 
He always shows up. He will never leave us to fight alone. 

I never seen Him coming but He knew what would happen. 

I trust you Lord, even when I don't see or understand, I trust in you!

I hope you have a chance, in the quiet of the day, to refocus on the ONE who calms the storms. 
Because....
He knows whats coming, He knows what will come from all this, there is a plan. How can I be so sure? Because there is always a plan, everything Jesus did was intentional. He was intentional with every step, word, action. Nothing has changed about God from the beginning of time. Everything is done for a reason. He is faithful, and intentional. 
I choose to focus on the one who calms the storms, not the storm. I pray you do to. I pray you change your focus, you recenter, and refocus!