Experience and Enjoy the God of Pleasant Surprises

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Nothing takes the God of pleasant surprises by surprise which is why He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beautiful beginning and glorious end. God always goes ahead of the enemy to safeguard His people.  He is in control of everything in the universe.

He knew that there would arise a Pharaoh determined to annihilate the Jews in a progressively subtle manner. Yet, he allowed the birth of Moses, the one who would lead the children of Israel out of Egypt at a time like that. Moses’ parents would have given up but God gave Jechobed the wisdom to hide him for three months after which He gave her additional wisdom to keep him at the River on a specific day. Why that day? Jechobed was paid to nurse her own child. She utilized the opportunity well. She instructed Moses in the ways of God before taking him to the palace.

God had prepared the heart of Pharaoh’s daughter to see, have compassion on the child, adopt him to save his life and raise him in the same institution that sought to take his life. What an awesome glorious God we serve.

Quite interesting and instructive is the fact that many at times, the devil thinks that God is not with us. But God always knows what the enemy is planning to do and plans ahead of time His mighty deliverance for us. As far as the devil and Pharaoh were concerned, the Israelites were shut in by the wilderness. They took advantage of the situation to strike but unknown to them, God had perfected the perfect exit strategy. Please see Exodus Chapter 14 as well as 1^st Corinthians Chapter 2 verse 9.

Haman thought his game of annihilate the Jews was over. But God had gone ahead of Haman long before he conceived his evil plan by placing Esther in the palace.