Expectations

Yes, it may seem cliché. But it’s really how I feel about this. This is no ordinary mission trip. And I certainly do not expect ordinary things to come of it. 
 
I can list a number of things I think will happen.
I think that I will…
*absolutely LOVE the work that we’re doing.
*extremely miss my family and friends
*see God move in miraculous ways.
*at times become tired and weary.
*develop amazing friendships within the community of my team.
*learn what it means to unconditionally rely on God.
*be completely overwhelmed
*have an outpouring of Christ’s love through me into the lives of others
*feel God in a way more real and present in my life than ever before
*have my faith and my life stretched and tested.
*experience full ranges of emotion.
*be humbled and constantly in awe at the things going on around me.
*be changed FOREVER by this experience.
 
This list could go on and on and on.
 
Yet as I write this list I realize… 
-I will do NOTHING and GOD will do EVERYTHING.
 
I fully expect the unexpected. 
 
Sure, all the things I think will happen very well may occur. But I do not want to put my God in a box. My God is HUGE!!! I will not underestimate Him or His POWER in my life and on this journey. I will not confine Him to my mere human expectations. I am surrendering my expectations to HIM.
 
God, do with my life as You choose. Move in me. Use me. Take me. Send me. Let this not be ‘my mission trip’. This is ‘Your mission trip’. Do the unexpected in my life. Radically move and change me. God, I tear down all walls and I’m shedding this ‘box’ we so often put you in. Lord, I lay my life before You. Let Your will become my only way. I know that you will do things in my life and on this journey that I cannot fathom!!!
 
I FULLY EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED!!!!
 
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”
Proverbs 3:5-6