Expectations?

My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And My ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts higher than your thoughts.

Isaiah 55.8-9

Don't get caught expecting God to only move in one way.  Don't limit God in how He is gonna show up in your life.  Don't miss out on what God is doing in your life and the lives of others because you haven't seen it happen that way before.  Don't miss out on His Glory being revealed around you or through you because you 'know' how Jesus is gonna get things done.

Think about how the Jews were baffled by Jesus hanging with sinners, eating, drinking and enjoying himself.  These are the same knuckleheads who were critical of John preaching in the desert. (Matthew 11.18-19) Remember, up until Jesus ascended to the Throne, the disciples still expected Jesus to overthrow the Romans. (Acts 1.6-7)

God has always used broken and the ugly to reveal His Perfection and His Glory. God ain't about doing things our way or in always in a manner that is understandable.  Sometimes, even after looking back with the perfect 20/20 vision that only hindsight can give us, we still can't make sense or explain how God did what He did, we just know that He did.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.
1 Corinthians 1.25