What Assumptions? 

     Shepherds outside Bethlehem one night assumed the sun would come up as always. Well, before sunrise, they were startled by the light of angels announcing that the Lamb of God had been born. 

     They dopped everything and hurried to the place where the baby lay. And - we assume in daylight - they excitedly told numerous people what they saw.

     One summer years ago, I was looking over a map of Colorado. Ho hum. But when a friend and I arrived at the youth camp we were going to serve, in the mountains, it took my breath away. Almost. 

     We live with assumptions about God. Maybe we take things for granted. We have pictures in our mind of things the Bible says and preachers preach. 

     God said through Isaiah, See, I am doing a new thing. Do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Chapter 43:19.  

     Looks like the day Jesus returns to Jerusalem and new things occur.

     Meanwhile, we can break through our assumptions and open our hearts to new things that God wants to do through us. It took me 48 years (regular church attendance) before a really bad occurrence drove me to my knees and eventually took away my breath. Almost. New things were waiting for me to wake up, after all those years. 

             Jimmy