Man and our Expectations

Man and our Expectations

[My Offline Bible] Psalms 62
5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

[My Offline Bible] Psalms 60
11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. 12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

God uses men. God works with men. A lot wouldn't happen on earth if someone wouldn't step up to make it happen. God loads man with treasures and empowers him to be fruitful. His spirit, his soul, His mind and body were equipped to deliver. He is a ruler among God's creation, a dominating figure and a major manipulator of creation. He is a devastating factor among creatures and can be ruthless at it with pride and selfishness. You, a man too can't be successful among men without a good understanding of who he is or they are.

That's who we are and we can hardly do without that, but that enigmatic feature of man would want us to put our expectations on him. We put out our profiles to create what those who patronise us should expect from us.

We boast of our advantages, properties, peculiarities and specialities. We want people to put their expectations on us and we do same also. And sometimes we fulfill some of those expectations and so increase the hope of others in us.

But man is limited. In fact, whatever he has must have  been given him. His life came out of what he couldn't control. He didn't plan his own inception, he only discovered it. His birth was not planned, couldn't have been planned because it may not have happened. He could only speculate based on past experiences and occurrences, he doesn't know what happens next or knows what the next person is thinking. He is so complex in both his advantages and disadvantages.

Now, a creature with such extremes shouldn't be one to expect much from. He is too handicapped to expect too much from. Except he is used or worked with by the Creator who preplanned what we are living through, man can't really do much.

Listen to what a king replied to a helpless woman seeking help...

[My Offline Bible] 2 Kings 6
26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. 27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?

Besides, every little help is hyped to high heavens and we gloat if we are ever opportune to lend a little help to anyone. When we do, we mostly are seeking or expecting something else, properly bigger in return, up to enslaving whoever had 'enjoyed' the help.

But the dream of God is that we become like Him in being proactive to do good. It shouldn't be because we are expecting something in return or to make a name, but in response to the inherited nature of God from within.

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 5
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

God's desire is that He makes out of us a new creature specie that's not only winning the sin battle by not committing sin but aggressively doing good with Zeal.

[My Offline Bible] Titus 2
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Not to live in sin is wonderful and beyond merely human, but zealously doing good is absolutely out of this world and that's what God has made the believer in Christ to be.

We can never get to the point where we have done enough good to talk about or gloat over. Gloating is a sign that we aren't Spirit inspired in the good we do.

And when we receive good in as much as we show appreciation to those men God inspired to do so, we must never forget that God is the one behind it and show him much more appreciation.

And instead of keeping the vessels used as the source from where our help come, we must be careful not to put our expectation on them otherwise we suffer debilitating  disappointments. Vain is the help of man!

[My Offline Bible] Jeremiah 17
5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

Good morning!