Unexpected. Change. Frustration. Disturbance. Shift. Inconvenience. Adjustment. Interruptions.
Those are not fun words and when we think of the people in the Bible that we have come to know, we can see how these words played out in their lives, they were heading in one direction, but then God stepped in and disrupted their life. If I listed them here, I would be rewriting the entire Bible. The word of God to us, the Gospel means good news! So the disruption of God in our life is to be expected and it is for our good.
Life interrupted, is it uncomfortable? Yes. Very. It also can be a life-altering, game-changing moment. However, it is there for a reason that we might not know this side of eternity. There is a purpose to it all. God doesn't have to reveal it, but it should cause us to stop going one direction and go toward another, it should cultivate a changed heart or mindset. It is a moment when the grace of Heaven touches Earth, becoming the reminder that we need to recenter us in who we are and to be adjusted again in our foundation of who God is. God will always interrupt our lives and we can rest on his Word to anchor us.
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this but actually, they are disdaining God's "crooked but straight path". It is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.”
― Brennan Manning, The Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God's Fierce Mercy Transforms Our Lives
It takes a big dose of bravery to pray the prayer that God would interrupt our lives for the sake of his glory, but I believe that when we pray that prayer from a position of honesty, God will do amazing things through us.
