A lot of my life and this year has been about expectations. Expectations of what people think about me. Expectations of the future. Expectations of myself and other people. Lately though I feel like God is trying to tell me something. (I mean He’s always trying to tell us something and speak to us but yanno this one has been poking out) I think God is trying to tell me that expectations can sometimes be damaging. God surpasses expectations. Or sometimes God has a different plan than what our expectations tell us.
I think a lot of us can agree when I say 2020 has not been what we expected. Like, at all. Furthest from our expectations. I had so many plans and was going to make this year the best year of my life! At the beginning of the year I was sooo on fire for God and felt reborn in a sense. I had been so miserable the year before (that’s a different story but basically I just wasn’t living with God at the center…enough said!) and was excited of what this year had in store…Especially going into this next season with the World Race. I created a lot of expectations. This whole process has been about letting those expectations go really or about God changing them. God changed a lot of things and surpassed a lot of expectations. Nothing about this year has been what I expected but although it didn’t go as planned, I wouldn’t have changed it.
Looking back at this year, I can fully see how God was moving and creating moments that changed not only me but the world and church as a whole. He has stretched me and taught me things through different situations. Like how you should enjoy every single moment because you never know when things can change. Or how quarantine taught me that church isn’t just about a building but a community and how community is one of the most important things to have. How sometimes God puts certain people in your life to teach you and push you without realizing. How sometimes people can be really hurting and going through it without showing it. How every bad situation can be transformed to good if you bring God into the equation. He opened my eyes to a lot of things this year but these are just a few and I’m most positive that if you ask God to show you the good in this year He will show you.
God is so big. Bigger than anything and everything. He is bigger than your expectations, your feelings, your self-made plans. His ways are higher. His plans are better. He can not and will not fit inside the box you try to put Him in because He will break through every time. He works everything out. He is the master planner. Best author. So when you can’t see where something is going, keep reading/keep going and you might just be astonished and changed by God. Actaully, change that MIGHT into WILL. You WILL be astonished and changed by God. Let go of expectations and just LET GOD!
If you have any testimonies or just want to share something good that happened this year, please please please comment down in the comment section and tell me about it! It can be big or small. A happy memory. A funny story. Where you traveled. An unexpected event. Or tell me how many times I used the word “expectations” in this blog!!! I wanna hear! 2020 may have thought it could bring us down but it was wrong! Thanks God!
