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February 10, 2021 by hldude

Living With Great Expectations

“Living With Great Expectations”

1 Peter 1:3-4 NLT

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.  It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead.  Now we live with great expectation, and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay.

I think it’s safe to say we have all had many past experiences with having high expectations in various situations only to have those hopes dashed away for whatever reasons. 

You visit a fast food place, restaurant or have a meal delivered that someone spoke highly of and recommended, but then you end up having terrible service or food that was cold and tasted terrible.

You go see a movie that you’ve waited so long to see, but then you are so disappointed in the plot and are let down for spending the time and money.

You buy a product from a store that you’ve heard so much about and are excited to finally try, but then it turns out to be a piece of junk and you’re left broken-hearted from the anticipation you once had.

We’ve all been let down like this in some way or another and we often get tired of having great expectations of something turning out good only to have a completely opposite experience.  We all had great expectations for a great year in 2020, but we learned that anything can happen at any time to completely blow our minds in various ways.

Sometimes it’s really hard to live with great expectations after a very crazy 2020 and now with all that’s happened this year so far.  We tend to be hesitant to have great expectations and wonder sometimes if we should get excited about things.  Well, if they are worldly things, we better be prepared to get let down and not have high hopes.  However……if our expectations are a different and we focus instead on things not of this world, then we may just be in luck! 

We can have great expectations in our hope with God and He will never disappoint!  That’s not to say hard times won’t come, but He will never let us down.  We can rejoice and have great expectations to know that we have a priceless inheritance in Christ!  When the world lets us down, we always have Christ to trust and rely on.  He has given us new life and that life in Him is filled with great expectations! 

In Christ, we can always live with great expectations!

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1 Peter 1:3-4 (LEB)

A New Birth to a Living HopeBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,4into an inheritance imperishable and undefiled and unfading, reserved in heaven for you
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I think that hope, hoping for things is ok. But being let down by something you had hoped for is part of the process. Sometimes the best things come when we don't expect. Sometimes you are hoping for something and something better comes around the corner. We must deal with hope in our own way. Great expectations are great expectations. You should read about Christian Manifest destiny.
 
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Warrior8080 said:
I think that hope, hoping for things is ok. But being let down by something you had hoped for is part of the process. Sometimes the best things come when we don't expect. Sometimes you are hoping for something and something better comes around the corner. We must deal with hope in our own way. Great expectations are great expectations. You should read about Christian Manifest destiny.
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Give an example of a best thing you have unexpectedly received.
 
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Same thing happened to Apostle Peter

Then a voice told him, "Get up, Peter. Kill and eat." Surely not, Lord!" Peter replied. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean" Acts 10:13-14

God sees things differently.

But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.”

God never fails. Our expectations should be ready to succumb to God's adjustment.

Matthew 5:20
But I warn you—unless your righteousness is better than the righteousness of the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven!
 
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Jacob62 said:
Give an example of a best thing you have unexpectedly received.
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I remember once I was grieving over a lost relationship when I suddenly met someone on the way back home. One thing led to another and suddenly I was in a relationship with someone else. This came about very unexpectedly but I was happy it did so.
 
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Warrior8080 said:
I remember once I was grieving over a lost relationship when I suddenly met someone on the way back home. One thing led to another and suddenly I was in a relationship with someone else. This came about very unexpectedly but I was happy it did so.
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