This post is part of my ongoing series of writing down my thoughts on the Bible passages I read each day. Some days I hope to have great insight that the Lord gives me, and many days, I will likely struggle through the text and not know what to write down based on what I read. My hope and prayer is that as I make this a habit, just as I did daily writing for so long, that I will improve on my ability to read and understand the passages I’m reading. Please keep in mind that many of these posts may be published late at night or with little time studying and simply be my first thoughts after reading. This is in no way a commentary that one should use to discern the Bible, but my own personal thoughts.
In the 12th chapter, it gives quite a few analogies of God doing things that seem out of the ordinary. For example: “He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.” God does a lot of stuff backward from what we might expect. Not necessarily that he always does it, but that he works in ways we wouldn’t expect.
One need look no further than the story of Jesus being born in a manger in a stable to learn that.