在1957年上映的戰爭電影《桂河大橋》引起轟動，許多影迷紛紛前往泰國北碧府尋找那座真實的鐵橋。他們找到了那座橋，但那座橋並不是橫跨桂河，原來是電影公司弄錯了這條河的名稱！不過很快地，這段美功河被改名為桂河，以符合人們的期望。

約翰福音記載許多人因聽說耶穌所行的神蹟奇事便蜂擁而至（6章2節），但耶穌絕不會讓別人的期望動搖祂神聖的使命。他們找到耶穌，並相信祂就是上帝所應許的彌賽亞，便要求耶穌成為他們的軍事領袖，拯救他們脫離羅馬帝國的統治。使徒約翰說﹕「耶穌既知道眾人要來強逼祂作王，就獨自又退到山上去了。」（15節）

儘管人們施加壓力，要求耶穌按照他們的期望來施行拯救，但耶穌仍堅定地遵循上帝的計劃，以他們真正需要的方式來救他們（歌羅西書1章13節）──並非拯救他們脫離世俗的苦難，而是脫離「罪和死」的權勢（羅馬書8章2節）。

耶穌堅定遵循上帝的旨意，提供了你我最需要的救恩，因此我們無論遇到何種景況都能信靠祂。當上帝的方式似乎不符合我們的期望，我們仍可確信祂的計劃總是更加美好，因為祂拯救我們的心意永不動搖。

The 1957 war movie The Bridge on the River Kwai was so popular that fans flocked to Kanchanaburi in Thailand to look for the real-life iron bridge. They found the bridge, but it wasn’t on the Kwai—the movie got the river’s name wrong! Soon, however, that part of the Mae Klong River was renamed Kwae Yai (Kwai) so it would align with people’s expectations.

Jesus never let the expectations of others cause Him to waver in His divine mission. People flocked to see Him because they heard of the signs and miracles He’d performed (John 6:2). When they found Him and believed that He was the promised Messiah, they wanted Him as a military leader so He’d save them from Roman rule. John says, “Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself” (v. 15).

Despite the pressure to rescue people the way they wanted, Christ resolutely followed God’s plan to rescue them the way they needed to be rescued (Colossians 1:13)—not from earthly troubles but from the power of “sin and death” (Romans 8:2).

Jesus’ unwavering will to provide what we need is why we can trust Him in all circumstances. When God’s ways don’t seem to align with our expectations, we can be assured that His plan is always better—because He doesn’t waver in His will to save us.