Life Goal: To love Jesus and to love others in a way that draws them to know Jesus too.
Life Expectation: Life is going to be fun (and at most times, easy). I will get a good education, have some good life experiences before I graduate college. I will get a good paying job and make enough money to provide for myself. I will eventually get married and have a family. I will be involved in a church and constantly involved in ministry, however that looks. I will travel. I will make my days memorable and enjoyable. I will one day look back on my life when I'm old and not regret a thing. (The expectation list all in all, honestly goes on forever probably).
However, I am realizing as I think about the last line of what I expect out of life, it doesn't seem possible. It does not seem possible to look back on my life with no regrets if I am living focused on these expectations that I am not guaranteed, these expectations that hold not nearly as much significance as the goal.
How come we are so fixed on the expectations.
So fixed on them that we forget the GOAL.
We make life about the little things that hold no weight,
and forget about the things that hold ALL the weight.
If I am focused on the goal, focused on what I really want out of life, I will end up looking back on my life at any given time, knowing that I am right where I want to be. But if my life continues to be focused on these expectations that most of the time are fleeting, my life will end up looking a heck of a lot different then I desire it to.
I heard a little sermon given on not mixing up your goals with your expectations about a year ago.
Changed my life. Really though.
Just a little food for thought.
