I love when things go as planned. But in life perfect moments are rare and, even more than that, they are fleeting. One second I am blissfully living out all my hopes and dreams, the next I am in a flurry trying to recover the broken pieces of my shattered expectations.
If there is anything I have learned this year, it is that expectations are not reliable objects of my faith.
It is almost impossible to live life without any expectations. Instead of looking back at the hardship and failures of our pasts, we look to a future that is untouched by our dirty fingers of fallenness and brimming with our perfect expectations. Expectations are our companions on this earth as we look to the forward in hope of something better.
In Christ we have an alternative-- something in the future that cannot be crushed by reality. Our futures in Christ hold the fulfilled promises of God. These promises are not just what we can expect, but we know they will come to fulfillment because he is a faithful God and he is true to this character.
"Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say 'Yes, yes' and 'No, no' at the same time? As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes." -- 2 Corinthians 1:17-19
We will never get all that we expect out of life. But we receive something even greater. We get to live out God's plan for our small lives in the context of his plan for all of history. Suddenly, our futures become so much bigger. What he has planned is infinitely more glorious than anything we might expect.
"For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory. And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee." -- 2 Corinthians 1:20-23
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