An Incorrect Assumption
“My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:8-9 (NKJV)
Are there things in your life that you assumed would be easy because you believed the Lord commissioned them? Perhaps He has released a vision to you or put a certain idea on your mind or placed you where it was obvious you were being purposely and providentially planted, As a result, your assumption was that the right doors would easily swing open, and the people connected to where you needed to go were just going to make things simple for you and get out of the way, and there would be an open platform and pathway for you.
But it doesn’t always happen that way.
It becomes confusing, doesn’t it, to be right in the center of God’s will, and yet things are not going smoothly in your attempts to do what He’s told you to do. It’s not progressing fast and easy. People are not falling in line quickly enough. Recovery is taking longer than you thought it would.
What makes it more theologically frustrating is when these have less to do with the enemy trying to oppose or confuse things and more about the Lord's timing and His will, providence, desire, or movements in your life.
In those times, can you set aside your expectations and trust God?
I'll confess, I carry many expectations for my life: things that I know God can do and believe He will do in my life. But when these things don’t happen, I think, “What’s up with this, God? You have always responded and intervened before. So what's up with this late arrival or this locked door? I don't get it.”
The Lord has challenged me on these occasions that His part (the timing and the work and the power) is easy. The difficulty revolves around my part: the need for me to grow.
Be careful not to make your expectation an idol. Don't start making your expectation a god and then expect the Lord to bow to it. Don’t let your expectation become bigger than your trust in God or your surrender to His will.
