Our expectations of God, and the impact they have.

What expectations do you have of God? What expectations do you have of what God will do?

Imagine you turn up to what you believe is a music class. The teacher is an art teacher, and the room is decked out ready for an art lesson. But you're wearing glasses. What you see of the classroom and your teacher is altered. To you the classroom looks like a music room, and your teacher a music teacher. No matter how hard you try to relate to your music teacher, you end up lost because you're relating to him as a music teacher. There are even moments you don't even realise your teacher is commicating with you, or doing stuff for you. And you miss opportunities your teacher presents to you.

This badly written metaphor is like how our expectations of God cause us to relate to God as someone he isn't. When I do not see God for who he is, I cannot effectively communicate with God. I get lost in his teachings, I don't see what he is saying to me or doing for me, and I miss opportunities he creates for me.

Quite simply, the expectations I have of what God will do and who he is get in the way of me seeing God for who he is, seeing God in my life, and seeing the opportunities that God create for me.