A young man once made the statement to Charles Spurgeon, the great English preacher that nothing ever happened when he preached. Spurgeon asked, “You don’t expect something to happen every time, do you?” To which the younger replied, “Well, I guess not every time.” Spurgeon smiled and said, “That’s your problem, you don’t expect it.”
I can truthfully say before God that in more than sixty-plus years of serving our Lord, I cannot remember a time that I didn’t expect the Him to bless, in whatever I undertook for Him!
We have come to accept the usual. We are accustomed to the customary. Somewhere in the past we sentenced ourselves to the dungeon of religious routine. We no longer expect the unexpected. We have become “minor prophets”; we can predict next Sunday’s service and upcoming events with acute accuracy. We simply expect, ’same old same old’.
When I was a pastor a godly lady once said to me, “Preacher, George and me don’t like to be gone on Sundays, we’re afraid we’ll miss something.”
Christians have every right to expect God to do something on their behalf, if He promised it in His Word! David said, “My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.” And his son Solomon added, “For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.”
No child of God who possesses and holds firm to a Divine Expectation, will ever be disappointed.
by an Aged Saint