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Job 5:9 “He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.”

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There is something beautiful about being surprised. Real surprise— the kind that leaves you speechless, wide-eyed, and grateful— catches you off guard. It disrupts your expectations and reminds you that life still holds wonder. We live in a world where most of us plan everything. We schedule every hour. We track steps, budget calendars, and anticipate next steps. Surprises don’t happen often. And when they do, we’re usually suspicious of them. But what if faith was meant to be a life of holy surprise?

Job 5:9 says that God performs wonders we cannot even fathom. Miracles that can’t be counted. Not past tense. Present. God’s wonder-working power is not archived. It’s active. He is still in the business of blowing people’s minds. He is still answering prayers you haven’t thought to pray yet. He is still writing chapters you couldn’t dream up. But the truth is, many of us have stopped expecting wonder.

Maybe we’ve grown weary. Maybe life has been predictable, and we’ve quietly assumed that God has gone quiet too. Maybe pain taught us to protect ourselves from disappointment, so we stopped dreaming big, stopped praying boldly, and stopped watching for the unexpected.

We believe in miracles, in theory. But we don’t expect them in our day-to-day. We call that being “realistic.” But sometimes realism is just a nice way of saying unbelief.

Look at the life of Jesus. His miracles were never predictable. He used spit and mud to heal one man’s eyes. He healed another with just a word. He walked through walls, calmed storms with a sentence, multiplied fish from a child’s lunchbox, and interrupted funerals to bring people back to life. Nothing about Jesus was boring. And nothing about his power was formulaic.

You never knew when it was coming. You never knew how it would arrive. But you always knew something happened when he was near. The same is true today.

If Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then he is still the God of surprise. He still hears the unspoken prayers. He still sees the silent suffering. He still meets people on ordinary days in extraordinary ways.

Faith means waking up with an open heart. It means living today like God might do something unexpected. It means asking him to surprise you, not with things that are flashy or impressive, but with moments that remind you he is close.

It could be a conversation you didn’t plan that shifts your perspective.
It could be a financial need that gets met in a way you never saw coming.
It could be peace where there was anxiety.
It could be a door that opens after months of silence.
It could be forgiveness where there was only resentment.

God is not predictable, but he is always purposeful. And when you walk with him, you will experience things that don’t make sense on paper. The problem is, most of us miss the miracles because we’re not looking for them.

In Luke 24, two disciples were walking down the road, grieving the death of Jesus. They didn’t realize he had risen. As they walked, a stranger joined them. He asked questions. He talked about Scripture. He walked beside them all the way to their destination. And it wasn’t until they sat down to eat that their eyes were opened, and they realized it was Jesus.

They were walking with the miracle the entire time, but they didn’t recognize it until the end. How often does that happen to us?

We assume God is absent because we don’t feel anything dramatic. We think nothing is happening because there is no big headline. Meanwhile, God is walking beside us, arranging conversations, softening hearts, planting seeds, answering prayers we haven’t even thought to pray yet. If we only look for God in the spectacular, we will miss him in the ordinary.

He is the God of quiet wonders. The one who splits seas but also strengthens hearts. The one who raises the dead but also whispers peace to a sleepless mind. The one who multiplies loaves but also multiplies grace when you’re hanging by a thread. He is not just the God of the unexpected. He is the God of the uncountable.

You can’t put limits on how many times he can come through. You can’t measure the depths of his love. You can’t predict the path he will take to get you where you need to be.

You can only stay ready. Faith isn’t just belief in what God did back then. It’s readiness for what God might do right now.

It’s not forcing God into your timeline. It’s trusting him with your surrender. It’s keeping your eyes open and your heart soft. It’s walking through your day with the expectation that God could break in at any moment and remind you that you are not alone.

The encore is not always loud. Sometimes it begins in silence. But the same God who performed miracles you’ve read about is still at work. His wonders have not run dry. So don’t stop expecting them.

Apply

Before the day gets busy, pause and ask God to surprise you. Write it out: “God, I’m open today. Surprise me with your presence. Show me something that reminds me you are near.” Then pay attention. Watch for beauty, for grace, for unexpected answers.

Pray

God, thank you for being the God of wonder. I confess that I often stop expecting you to move. I grow tired or skeptical. But today, I choose faith. I believe you still work in ways I can’t explain. Open my eyes. Help me see the miracles already in motion. In Jesus’ name. Amen.