Great Expectations

Today I find that someone else's words capture what's going on in my heart better than my own words could.  So I hope you don't mind but today we will have a guest blogger!  Meghan Robinson is the amazing wife and co-minister of one of our favorite Youth for the Nations speakers, Carey Robinson.  (Though Meghan is quite the speaker herself.)  I struggle with waking up everyday expecting God to move, and making that my goal for the day rather than survival.  I hope you are as blessed by her words as I am.  If you would like to read more from Meghan Robinson, her blog is at meghanrobinson.wordpress.com

 

-girly

Great Expectations

It is a busy week for me as I am preparing to be gone all week next week attending ARC’s All Access Conference! I can’t wait! There is nothing in the world I enjoy more than talking church, God and culture! I love the inspiration that comes from being around other world changers. With all the excitement, I cannot even begin to tell you how much must be done to leave my house and kids for a week.

I have already been preparing grocery lists, dinner ideas, doing laundry to set out outfits, thinking about school transportation and planning for the cheerleading tryouts that I am going to miss. I know my girls will be great! I am leaving them in fabulous hands but I (for my own sanity) must plan out and cover every thinkable detail and inevitably, I am sure I will miss something!

Due to the busyness required to prepare for a trip like this, I realized this morning that I haven’t even begun to think much about the conference I am so excited to attend. Carey asked me what I was expecting and I really had to think about it. My mind has been so caught up in what needs to be done to get there, I haven’t allowed God to stir the expectations of my heart. So this morning I am dreaming, praying, trusting God to bring fresh revelation, vision, passion for ministry. I am trusting him for wisdom and creative ideas to better serve His kingdom. I am believing for divine God connections that only He can orchestrate. I am preparing my heart for all that He wants to do.

Expectation is so necessary in our walk with God! I talked with an amazing girl on our youth staff the other day who said that she had decided that she was going to become “expectant” of God every day. Not just in church, but in her everyday life. She shared that she wanted to always expect God to show up and speak to her. To help her know what to do and say so that in whatever situation she may find herself in, she would always be led by the spirit and able to be used by HIM.

I love this heart attitude and I truly believe that God does too! So many times we get caught up in the busyness of life that we begin to just operate in the motions and we allow our expectations of God to creep into a routine that does not allow us to see past what we already know.

Romans 11:33 “Oh the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgements, how inscrutable his ways!”

Sometimes we set expectations and we feel let down by the outcome. I’ve heard it said, “I just don’t expect much and that way I am not disappointed.” I understand this sentiment, but I would rather place great expectations on the God of the universe whose plans are obviously so much greater than my own and be surprised by his inscrutable, all powerful ways.

xoxo

Meghan