It’s no surprise that God is an “out of the box” thinker, is it? After all, God is the ultimate “outside of the box” God –can’t be confined to a tabernacle, won’t be pleased by a simple sacrifice, definitely won’t tolerate other gods, makes relationships in terms of covenant, creates humankind in God’s own image, gives people more than 1,000 chances to get it right…. and the list goes on. God can’t be confined or defined by our rational or calculating minds nor described in terms of our limited, “rational,” or “equitable” perspective on life or the universe. God is simply bigger than all of those precepts, or any precept for that matter.

That’s why God is God, and we are not!

So, it shouldn’t be any surprise that God is constantly taking us off guard with unexpected outcomes and writing …