UNEXPECTED
Winder, Ga.
May 25, 1937
By G. W. S. Ware
Unexpected, mean, not to have in mind.
The course of human life is often interrupted by the unexpected. Human foresight and
knowledge is too defective to keep it away. Where little or no government is, man is more
alert against the unexpected. Wild animals, by nature, know the unexpected is around the
corner and behind every bush; hence, in their way, ready for the unexpected. They expect
the unexpected more than civilized man, and meet their fate with less nerves.
God is the only Being that the unexpected cannot reach. When the Lord Jesus Christ was
on earth, no combination of men against Him could spring the unexpected to entrap his
speech before the people, because He was God the Son; and when His enemies failed in that
line, they conspired to kill Him, which they did; but that was not unexpected, for it was
known to God before these enemies had their being. Christ’s meekness and silence
during His trial was an unexpected thing, so incredible that gentiles and Jews marveled at
it. God’s forsaking Christ on the cross was not unexpected, for He knew it in the
garden, which caused that agony no human being could endure; but Christ, being God, passed
through it, to give man who would believe it the right to pass through the gate into the
City of God, in place of being driven into eternity with Satan.
God is in all things that come to those "created in Christ Jesus for good
works." Christian, an aweful unexpected thing will come your way, but God will be in
it, fear not; to those who live in sin, the same will come. Not God, but Satan, will be in
it, to claim you. Leave Satan NOW.
