God is doing the same thing He was in the book of Acts.

God is doing the same thing He was in the book of Acts. He's turning things around. He's reversing the course of human events. It is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever. Where is the wise person? Where is the debater of this age? God has made foolish the wisdom of the world." (1 Corinthians 1:19–20).

There is a pride in the predictions of human beings based on human calculations of human knowledge about human factors. There is a pride in such predictions that God does not like—even when made by Christians! It is a practical atheism. It does not reckon with the living Lord of the universe who turns things around—out of the blue! But the book of Acts is written to encourage you again and again that the Jesus who began to do and to teach on earth is now alive still possessing complete, unlimited, and universal power and authority and continues to do what he began to do. He is turning things around all over the world—from huge political upheavals to personal periods of gloom and discouragement.

The point of the kingdom of God, the point of the Christian life—is that Jesus is alive and in charge of the world and that He butts in and changes things. He does not like the world from believing He cannot prevent things from happening. He does not like pessimistic cyclical views of history or personal life or family life—views that say: things just go in circles; they don't get anywhere. The yo-yo of fate never comes off its string.

But it does! The world is not a machine. It's a drama. And there is a live author-director, named Jesus, who can and does jump on the set anytime He wants to and boggles the minds of the actors who think they know the script. Jesus is alive and He turns things around. Don’t have a kind of open-ended expectancy to your life because Jesus is alive. Jesus is just as much alive today as in the book of Acts and He means to do a lot more things. He has surprises in store for this world and for your life than you have ever dreamed.

The fear of the Lord is that sense of awe that the Lord God is infinitely holy and infinitely powerful and He is not to be considered someone you can take little or no thought with. He is free to break in with indescribable, heart-stopping suddenness and power whenever and wherever He pleases.

You do not make light of God. You do not deal lightly with Him in life. He is living and powerful and unstoppable you humble yourself under his mighty hand. So Rest in the eye of His love and care, tremble at the wind of his holy power, and be on the alert in your life for utterly amazing events that cause things to turn around. Let there be in your life an open-ended expectancy that Jesus is going to act. He is going to turn things around. And when he does prepare to reap.