Expectations….
Aren't expectations interesting? The other day I was driving home and I saw this sign. It made me think of expectations. Now I am expecting road work, so I am expecting to be delayed. Does it make it better now that I am expecting to be late or would I have rather not expected it?
Expectations come up often when talking or thinking about the World Race. What is it going to be like? I did have my expectations. Where are you going? I did have my expectations to go the 11 countries that they have told us we are going to. What is God going to do? I did have my expectations..Who are your teammates going to be? I did have my expectations.
Did you notice that I said
I DID
have my expectations
The first night of training camp we had the opportunity to surrender these expectations. We have the choice to surrender these expectations OR hold on to them and put God in a box of what I believe the World Race should be.
I chose to surrender my ~race route
~teammates and the process in which they are chosen
~idea of adventure
~idea of what God looks like or acts like
~idea of what God is going to do inside of me the next 11 months
~idea of what I will do during the World Race
~thoughts about what I will be or do when I come home
To show that we made the choice to surrender these things we had the opportunity to place our thumb print on a piece of canvas. At the end of the week they put the pieces of canvas together to display this beauitful piece of artwork outlining the world. I don't want my expectations to hold me back from what God has for me during the race. I have surrendered them. Will you come alongside me in this process of surrendering?
Back to the expecting road delays, I came to the conclusion that I would rather not know and have no expectations. I would rather not expect God to be a certain way or do certain things because He has always been so much more amazing then I could ever have expected. What are your thoughts?
