There are brothers and sisters in the Faith today who seem to be standing still in their journey with God. They are very frustrated in this life because they can not move forward in God's Will due to anger with Him, but they cannot go back to the world because they have been exposed to too much light and the world cannot accept them. These saints truly have hearts for God, yet they have a hard time accepting God's Will based on their unmet expectations of what their life in Christ has become. They accepted the gift of Christ and they want to please God but they want to do it in their own way or the way they feel would best benefit the world and God.
The book of Jonah speaks well to the saints that find themselves in this position. God had a purpose and mission to carry out through Jonah. Jonah wished not to carry this purpose out and he ran from the Lord. As we all know and as Jonah found out there was no where that he could go to flee from the presence of the Lord. This frustration usually turns into a bitterness that robs the saint of hours, days, weeks, years, decades, and sadly for some a lifetime of enjoying a life as a vessel of gold. This bitterness could deal from many sources such as, sickness in self or a loved one, death of a loved one, poverty, lack of acknowledgement by man, lack of promises fulfilled by God, Lack of appreciation from God, lack of love from family and friends, lack of worldly possessions, or past brokeness never heeled.
The same reason why divorce takes place outside of adultery and abuse, is the same reason why these saints stop pressing forward in God's Will for their lives, their EXPECTATIONS was not met. Expectations can simply be defined as "those actions performed by others that the receipeint beleived would take place". Many fall away from pursuing God with all their heart because they have a lack of Faith. See man defines Faith as "believing in what God is going to do", but we should see faith as "believingt in what God has already done"!!! Even the end of times and Christ's return has already been spoken into existence through the inspired WORD of God. So it not a matter of is it going to come to fruitition, the question is when and only God knows that answer. Our faith in Christ is not based on the hope that He will save us from hell, it's on the Fact that He has Saved us from the penalty of sin. Our expectations of this life in Christ must be placed on the cross or we will become a slave to them as well. We must not deny the gift of this blessed life lived in Christ becuase of our frusterations due to unmet expectations!!! Today, if you have found yourself in a pattern of wrestling with God's Will and therefore by default rejecting the gift of pursuing God with all your might by standing still in your race, place your expectations and frustrations on the cross and release the shackels of bondage in your walk!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of recognizing God's Gifts on purpose!!!!!
Luke 4
Jesus Rejected at Nazareth
14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. 15 He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.
16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”[f]
20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21 He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
22 All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.
Acts 13
26 “Fellow children of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent. 27 The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. 28 Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed. 29 When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb. 30 But God raised him from the dead, 31 and for many days he was seen by those who had traveled with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to our people.
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