Day 10 – Unexpected

Bicycles in Switzerland

There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish…a man of wealth. He had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man…head and shoulders above everyone else. Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, had strayed. So Kish said to his son Saul, “…Go and look for the donkeys.” He passed through the hill country of Ephraim…the land of Shalishah… Shaalim… (and) Benjamin, but they did not find them. When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to the boy who was with him, “Let us turn back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and worry about us.” (1Samuel 9: 1-5)

 

First impressions do not fix a person’s character or destiny. Rather, they highlight the aspects of a person’s personality that will need to be faced if they are to develop and mature into their full potential. With each change and challenge in life we need to revisit our default settings. Often we feel we can’t change. For Christians, the hope of change lies in the cross of Jesus. Planted in our life story, the cross cuts into those fixed cycles and makes a break in them. Trapped cycles unravel and the threads begin to open out in unexpected, exciting directions.

(Extract from Dust & Glory by David Runcorn)

Queen Mary II, Greenock (DS)

 Prayer

Lord, break into my life and give me courage to live in the adventure of all you call me to be.