Jeremiah 29:11-13–For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 

One of the biggest frustrations that can really severe a relationship is to have non-communicated expectations.  The idea “that a person should know you enough, not to ask” sounds deep and intimate, but is really immature and prideful.  Because we all change, and the things we expected in our twenties should be different than in our 30’s, 40’s, and so on. So communication is not only ideal, but necessary to know what a person wants and expects!

God is the only one who can get away with knowing everything about us, so He is able to give us what we expect, yet He usually doesn’t!  What He does give us is hope, a hope that is not evil, but is for our good.  Yet can we say that when God gives us what we didn’t expect, we’re mature enough to trust Him for what is best? The way we measure that, is whether we are content when giving up our personal expectations?

In other words, have we given the Lord “the right” to lead us, according to what makes us most beneficial for His purpose and Kingdom?  Or are we living so comfortable with how God has blessed us, that any slight deviation from what we expect, causes us to live in bitterness and unbelief?

The latter question reveals that if our heart and maturity rest in that idea, than it proves that God has been so good, that any “bad” that happens to us is not God, when it surely is!  God promised a future and a hope, that the result of His purpose is best.  He didn’t promise the means of getting there would be wonderful, but good for us!

But the question is whether the Word and Spirit are defining life for us, or are we? Because our definitions are generally rooted in the culture around us, which promotes nothing close to biblical reality. God has been so good to us, that we have been spoiled, and having “problem-less” expectations generally prove that.

In His Love, Ld