Disrupted Expectations

In the first week of our Holy Disruptions Advent series, we explored how the Christmas story reveals a God who lovingly breaks into our world in unexpected ways. While we long for a peaceful, predictable December, Scripture shows that God’s work often arrives through disruption—not to harm us, but to draw us into His greater purpose.

Through the stories of Mary and Joseph, we saw how God’s favor and presence can overturn our plans, challenge our assumptions, and lead us down paths we never imagined. Mary’s confusion, Joseph’s crisis, and their courageous “yes” to God remind us that holy disruptions often begin where our certainty ends.

Isaiah 55 reminds us that God’s ways are higher than ours. What feels like interruption to us may actually be God’s invitation into redemption, transformation, and new life. Just as Mary and Joseph’s disrupted expectations became the doorway for salvation, God may be reshaping our stories in ways that will only make sense in hindsight.

As Advent begins, we’re invited to release our expectations, trust God’s character more than our own plans, and make room for the Christ who comes—not always as we expect, but always as we need.