Have you ever had expectations? From people, from God, from life? Felt like somehow something is missing? Like you are incomplete? Like until this thing that you want so badly, that you expect to happen to you, that you are just waiting for God to give to you comes along you are just drifting along, always awaiting, always looking, always searching for it. Expectations for money, expectation for provision, expectation for relationships, expectation for giftings, expectation for more, and more, and more.
Well guess what…..I have. I have had expectations for all of these things. I have expected money, after all doesn't it say that He will prosper me? I have had expectations for provision, of a car, a roof over my head, food, clothing.
I have had expectations for relationships, relationships with family, with friends, with women, with men. Expectation that I will one day get married. Expectation that it would happen sometime sooner than my thirties.
Expectation that He will do a great and mighty work in me, that He will give me new spiritual giftings, that He will bless me with new things, and continue to renew me.
Expectation after expectation.
They tell us at World Race training camp to let go of all of our expectations, let go of what we expect to get out of the race, let go of what we expect from people, let go of what we expect to encounter in each country, let go and just be okay with whatever happens.
God wants us to surrender everything that we are to Him. Physically, spiritually, and mentally. If I sit here and hold onto an expectation that I have then I am not letting go. I am saying, I'm not okay where I am right now, the place that You have me in is not where I want to be, and you don't know what you're doing God, because I have expectations and they are not being met.
He knows what we need, and He knows when we need it. He is God after all. If He in all of His glory and might created me, with a plan, and a future, and a destiny how can I in all my humanness doubt that He knows what He is doing. I believe that He has placed desires in my heart, and that He has amazing plans for my life. And today, right now, with hands wide open, receiving whatever it is that He has for me, I don't need more, and I don't need less. I am right where He wants me to be, and I Am Okay.
