How To Manage
Expectations!
"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are
little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of
you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler
in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old,
from everlasting."
Micah 5: 2
Isaiah 55:9 provides a guide for managing expectations:
God’s Ways and
Thoughts are higher than our ways and
thoughts. Meaning, whenever we think we are certain of
how and when God will act . . . watch out!
For example, when God prophesied through the prophet
Micah where the Messiah would be born, everyone was
surprised that it would be in Bethlehem, a small village
“among the thousands of Judah.”
There is a reason: Bethlehem was the home of David,
and the Messiah would be “the Son of David”
(Matthew
21:9). There is another reason: Bethlehem in Hebrew is
bet lechem, “house of bread.” Jesus, born in “the house
of bread,” declared Himself to be “the bread of life”
(John 6:35,
48).
This was a surprise, a shock actually, to
the
religious leaders. Jesus said He was the new
manna from heaven, replacing “bread” that
had sustained the Jews in the
wilderness.
Let God surprise you.
Trust Him to do that which
is best for you in His timing
and in His way.
"God never discovers anything,
He is never surprised, never
amazed."
A. W. Tozer