It's crazy to think how much we plan and how much we expect from different situations in life. We like to plan our life step by step and expect things to go exactly how we planned, and when it fails to do that, we are left feeling discouraged and dissapointed.
-We are not married yet or in a commited relationship so it makes us feel like we are not good enough to ever be liked by someone worthwhile
-Or you expected someone to feel the same way that you feel about them
-We expected to have a different job and to be making more money to support yourself instead of living with family members or by yourself wondering what you could have changed
-We expected ourseleves to not get caught up in drugs, drinking, or the fast life of hookups and breakups and never feeling fully satisfied
-Maybe you're dissapointed because you are not really close with your bestfriends anymore and you feel lonely and have no one to confide in
-Or you have been working out and eating healthy but you still feel ugly and not good enough
We could come up with numerous situations in our lives where we expected something out of a situation but left only feeling hurt, disspointed, and discourged!
I have been experiencing this a lot when it comes to my "planning" with the World Race. I expected everyone to support me wanting to go. I planned to have a certain amount of money raised at this point and that didn't happen. I expected my family members to be more helpful when it came to planning a benefit to raise money and I definatly expected for it to be easier to get donations for a chinese auction. But these are all things i expected and planned to happen. It would be foolish to think that everything is going to go according to MY plan.
Proverbs 16:9 says, "the heart of a man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps"
I can plan as much as I want but the Lord is the one who is going to make things happen. I cant expect everyone to be perfect because they are imperfect. I need to place my trust and my high expecations in the one that can make things happen, Jesus Christ! I need to remember I don't have the perfect plan, HE DOES!
