Family and Relationships (2)
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Expectations
Expectations
Most of our problems with anger and broken relationships, stem from unfulfilled expectations
Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.
Joyce Meyer
Are you living your life trying to live up to expectations others have placed on you?
Are you placing expectations on others that cause you and others to be frustrated and angry?
We were never called to meet peoples expectations. We were called to love Jesus and serve Him with all our hearts. We were called to live a purposeful life that is abundant.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
The Goal Each individual living in the image and likeness of God, being fruitful and being light and salt on the earth.
Is that your focus? or are we trying to make people happy?
Jesus Didn’t Meet People’s Expectations
Jesus Didn’t Meet People’s Expectations
Jesus’s humble beginning didn’t meet expectations. Born of a young virgin had a carpenter as a father. Born in Bethlehem in a manger, fled to Egypt, raised in Nazareth. A very normal common family.
Jesus blessed the poor, the mourning, the meek.
He was honored by the wise kings and shepherds in the fields, heavenly host’s worshiped Him yet people rejected and despised him. Why?
He didn’t come from the right place...
He was too humble and meek
He was too proud and arrogant
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’
The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
The ones who thought they were holy He called them sinners
The ones who thought they were sinners He made them Holy
Jesus confronted the status quo around Him
But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,
Jesus challenged the way people thought.
Jesus healed the sick
Jesus confronted the Pharisees and the Sadducees
Jesus turned over the tables
Jesus died on the cross...
Jesus rose from the dead!
Jesus didn’t defeat the Romans and restore the nation of Israel back to the Jews. He communed with sinners and samaritans and women.
God has perfect plans for us. But we need to submit to His will and ways.
We must trust Him in our relationships and not create false images of relationships we expect to have.
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
“I am convinced what this world wants is true men and women, not great men, but true and honest and upright persons that God can use…”
– D.L. Moody
Do not put your trust in princes,
Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.
His spirit departs, he returns to his earth;
In that very day his plans perish.
Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help,
Whose hope is in the Lord his God,
We shouldn’t put our trust in men because they won’t always be around. You might get what you want for a while but it won’t last.
Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
And Aaron said to them, “Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”
So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.
And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf.
Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!”
So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.”
Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.