Expect the Unexpected

Fellow Labourers-

Today's subject for me is very fitting. Here I am on the seventh floor of The Renaissance Resort at World Golf Village in Jacksonville, Florida. I am here for two reasons. We are having a regional meeting, but I was specially invited to come in a day earlier to speak at a farewell function of a former senior manager who resigned after twenty years with the company. At dinner last night I was sharing table with an avid golfer from Trinidad when a group of six persons walked in. My avid golfer friend got all excited and said do you know who that is, to which the rest of us answered in the negative. He said that was one of the all time great master golfer Arnold Palmer who just inducted the late president Ike Eisenhower into the golf hall of fame next door. Because of this avid golfer we were invited to Mr. Palmer's table and he warmly shook each of our hands in turn. When I came back to my room and turned the TV on there was Mr. Palmer making his speech at the hall of fame event.

My devotional today was on leadership, and who would have thought that President Obama would be the first African American President of the USA. Yes we must expect the unexpected. Never say never. President Obama had one theme throughout his campaign "Yes we can." Joshua had one theme "As for me and my house we will serve the Lord." People who make commitments like these are leaders who expect the unexpected. They are not afraid of the critics and the naysayers. Let us therefore "Walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil." Ephesians 5:15-16. When the disciples went to the tomb I wonder what did they expect to see?

Pax Vobiscum

Robert A. Stewart