No story is a good story without a twist in the plot. In a good murder mystery, you shouldn’t know the killer’s identity until the big reveal at the end. In a sci-fi thriller you should, at some point, say, “I didn’t see that coming!” Likewise, in the narrative of Scripture, there are specific points at which the plot twists, and God does the unexpected. For those of us who have been reading Scripture for many years, there is a trap that we must take care to avoid, the trap of losing the “shock value” of the story. We forget just how unexpected God’s ways can be.