When God Interrupts Your Life
(Hebrews 11:8–19)
There are moments in life when God interrupts our plans so profoundly that everything changes. Those are not comfortable moments. They strip away control, certainty, and self-assurance. But they are also the moments that redefine faith — when God calls us, as He called Abraham, to walk forward into the unknown simply because He has spoken.
When God interrupts life and reveals Himself, the only faithful response is to trust Him. From that point forward, life can no longer be about our own wisdom, timing, or ability to make things work. We must live according to faith — trusting God’s wisdom, His promises, and His power to shape the future.
God’s interruptions often dismantle our illusion of control. Abraham could have stayed in Ur, secure in his wealth and family ties, but when God spoke, Abraham left everything familiar to pursue a promise he couldn’t yet see. He lived as a foreigner in a strange land — yet he was the heir of all God promised. That’s what faith looks like: trusting God even when life’s details seem uncertain, even when the path ahead seems harder than before.
Sometimes, walking with God feels like we’ve traded certainty for confusion. Faith doesn’t always make life easier; in fact, it may feel as though life becomes more complicated. But that’s when trust deepens. God allows the limitations of our wisdom and strength to run their course so that His wisdom and purpose can begin their work in us. Slowly, as we yield to His interruptions, our desires begin to mirror His. We start seeing life as He sees it — through the lens of eternity rather than comfort, through the pursuit of holiness rather than self-satisfaction.
Abraham’s story teaches us that God’s work in us always extends beyond us. His promises are never merely personal; they are cosmic and eternal. Faith moves us beyond a vision for this life into a vision for the life to come. We all long for fulfillment — for a life that feels complete and meaningful. But God’s call interrupts that pursuit and points our hearts toward the eternal city “whose architect and builder is God” (Heb. 11:10).
Faith, though, is not mere sentiment. It must be verified — not because God doubts us, but because we need to see that our trust in Him is real. Every true believer will face moments of testing where words of belief must become acts of surrender. For Abraham, that test came when God asked him to sacrifice his son Isaac — the very son through whom every promise was to be fulfilled.
It’s almost unthinkable: the promise, the blessing, and even Abraham’s purpose in life seemed to hang by a thread — a thread God Himself was asking him to cut. Could Abraham’s faith survive when everything God had given him was on the line?
Hebrews 11:19 gives us the answer: “He considered God to be able even to raise someone from the dead.” Abraham reasoned that God’s power was greater than his understanding. If God could bring Isaac into the world from his and Sarah’s barren bodies, He could certainly restore him from death. So Abraham obeyed — not because he understood everything, but because he trusted the One who called him.
That’s what faith looks like in the crucible of testing. It’s the conviction that even when everything seems to be lost, God is still faithful. His purposes are not undone. His promises never fail.
And that’s still true for us. God interrupts our lives — not to harm us, but to bring us into deeper fellowship with Himself. He tests our faith, not to destroy it, but to prove it genuine. For the believer, those moments refine trust and draw us nearer to God. For the unbeliever, they expose the fragility of trusting in oneself or in a world that offers no lasting hope.
Faith is not a straight, predictable path. It’s a journey marked by interruptions, uncertainties, and tests — but also by the unshakable assurance that God is faithful. When He calls us to surrender what we hold most dear, we do not lose — we gain a deeper experience of His resurrection power.
So when God interrupts your life, don’t run. Don’t fight for control. Trust Him. Lift your eyes beyond what you can see, and believe that His promises are unfolding in ways that reach beyond your lifetime — even into eternity.
Faith doesn’t end with you. It extends into the everlasting purposes of God, who always keeps His word.
Prayer
Father, thank You for loving us enough to interrupt our lives. Teach us to see Your hand in the uncertainties, to trust Your wisdom when our vision fails, and to surrender everything into Your faithful care. Strengthen our hearts to obey You even when the path is unclear, and help us look forward to that city You have prepared for those who love You. May our faith reflect Abraham’s — steadfast, tested, and full of hope in Your promises. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
–Pastor Mark
