#43 “Step #12: Living In Expectation!” 

“But, on the contrary, as the Scripture says,

What eye has not seen and ear has not heard

and has not entered into the heart of man, [all that]

God has prepared (made and keeps ready)

for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence,

 promptly obeying Him and gratefully recognizing the benefits He has bestowed]"

1 Corinthians 2:9 [ESV] 

Now we’ve come to step #12 which is “Expectation,” this is something that most children know all too well, for it is how they live their lives. Whether, it’s awaiting the arrival of a birthday, Christmas day or some other grand event of a Childs life. There is always a wide eyed sense of expectation plastered across their faces, full of hope and anticipation. Perhaps this is why the Lord said that we must come to Him as a little child; because they live in hope and anticipation, expecting something new every day.  “Believe me,” he said, “unless you change your whole outlook and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven." Matthews 18:3

Have you ever noticed that children never seem to have a sense of time?  What I man about this is that when you tell them that you are going to do something, they began immediately to expect that thing every single day.  You will have to place some sort of gage on that event or they will ask you everyday if it’s time yet! I find this to be the case with me young grandson, if I say we are going to make a special afternoon treat one day, but I have to get the ingredients first…everyday he will ask, “Granny did you get the ingredients yet?” This will go on every day until I’ve gotten the ingredients and we have prepared the treat.  To us it is worrisome but for them it’s just their anticipation and expectation operating in full force.

 What would it be like if we responded to God the same way? I mean once He tells us that He is going to do something we with wide eyed anticipation and extraction look for every single day until it arrives? This is what it truly means to “Believe,” you take God at His word and start to anticipate receiving that which He has promise. In fact you would go a step further, just like a child you will even begin to talk about it with your friend and family. My grandson went home and told his mother, “Grandma and I are going to make a special treat after school, when she gets the ingredients.”

Sad to say on my part I finally had to tell him that we would have to wait until I came to his home for Christmas. This was the only way to get him to stop asking every single day. What is interesting is that he never lost his excitement by the change of the time in which we would make treat, because to him it was still coming. How many times have we given up hope just because it did not come when we thought it would? Started to doubt God’s promise just because the time frame had change and we had to wait longer than expected?  We must realize that God does not live in a Chronos (time ordered, marked and named, “Two o’clock,” and “Three-thirty o’clock.”) realm, but in (Kaiross, which according to the Greeks is time which is, “The right moment.” Perhaps you could say that kaiross time is, “Only when the time is right.” But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,” Galatians 4:4 When the “Fullness of Time,” had come, Christ was born. Everything has an order and a date of expectation attached to it, we because we live in a Chronos world loss sight of this fact, if we have ever know it in the first place. 

Knowing and understand that God doesn’t operate in our time ordered world should help us to more fully understand that His timing is perfect even if it doesn’t seem like it. When we pray in this Chronos earth realm our petition goes into the Kaiross universe realm where time is not ordered but precise.  We then must understand, that at the very moment we pray our prayers step out of time (chronos) into “the right moment” (Kaiross) to be manifested “only when the times is right.” Don’t lose hope, keep expecting, remain in anticipation until you receive what you’ve prayed for!! 

My Prayer: Father today we come thanking You for your promises, an thanking you for teaching us how to wait for them to be answered in the right moment when the time is right. Give us the peace we need to wait patiently for our prayers to be manifested. In Jesus’ name Amen! 

Have A Bless Day…Go in God’s Peace!  

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