UNCALCULATEABLE< ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>1 Samuel 16:1-13, 1 Kings 19:1-15

When God sent Samuel to Jesse the Bethlehemite to go and anoint a king among his sons, God did not tell Samuel which of the sons the king would be. Samuel saw the first child of Jesse and he considered him as the one to be anointed. 1 Samuel 16:7, ÒBut the LORD said to Samuel, ÒDo not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.Ó Samuel was looking at the physical appearance, and attempted to go ahead of God, by seeing the wrong person as the right one, before God intervened. Looking at the physical will develop into giving into deception. Where there is deception there will be distraction. Distraction is a weapon of the devil to delay, deny and eventually destroy. Have you been giving unconsciously or ignorantly into deception by wrongfully assuming? Evidently, Samuel, a giant in the hand of God assumed wrongly and that shows that any man can do the same. Samuel was referred to as, ÒÉan honorable man; all that he says surely comes to passÉÓ (1 Samuel 9:6) Man cannot calculate the move of God, but can operate in the hand of God if waiting on God is consciously and consistently activated. Elijah fled from Jezebel, the wife of King Ahab after he had executed all the prophets of Baal with swords. During his fleeing, he got to a cave in Mount Horeb where the word of God had directed him to stand outside the mountain before the Lord. While he was waiting for the Lord a great and strong wind passed, and then an earthquake passed, and after the earthquake, fire passed, but the Lord was not in them. Knowing God, it could have been easily assumed that since God had not shown up in any of the three that has always been the process of His showing, He must have passed or He was no longer passing. Elijah waited and did not assume, neither did he calculate GodÕs move. God eventually passed for Elijah, ÒAnd after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice. 13 So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, ÒWhat are you doing here, Elijah?Ó ( 1 Kings 19:12-13) For Elijah, He came in a still small voice. Samuel or Elijah could have missed the mark of the calling by simply missing Him when He was passing. At all points in the journey of life, you cannot calculate or assumed God. He is not a stagnant God. Your case or assignment is different from every other case regardless of how relative your story could be, do your waiting on Him and He will show up for you differently.