An Attitude of Expectancy

Now a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on physicians and could not be healed by any, came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped. -Luke 8: 43 & 44

I know that these verses are often used in talking about healing, but that's not quite what I'm thinking about tonight. For a few months now, I've been pondering the idea of expecting God to show up/meet with us/do amazing things. I think it could be easy to get in to a mindset of just going to church or just waking up in the morning with no expectations. But why not expect Him to show up and do incredible things?

I was thinking tonight about places in the Bible where people were expectant. I was first thinking of John the Baptist. He was preparing the way because He knew Jesus was going to do incredible things. He expected something great.


Expect= thinking or hoping something [good] will happen  (Oxford Dictionary)

But then I remembered this woman with the issue of blood. What did she have to lose? She'd already been living that way for twelve years. But would she really have tried to get close to Jesus if she didn't expect something to happen? I think this woman was expecting something to change in encountering Jesus. And that makes sense because Jesus changes lives. I guess my question then becomes, are we just going throughout our day as normal or are we living life expecting to meet with Jesus?

I'm excited about what God has been doing lately and I'm expecting good things to happen! I'm expecting to meet with Jesus this weekend and to keep meeting with Him and keep seeing His hand move in amazing ways!

 

January 2010 out of the back window