Our idea of what well-being for our lives and souls should be
is greatly dependent on expectations that spring from our contexts and inner neediness. Weary hours and years can be spent groping for what we think should be due us. If I hold over you a set of unspoken or subconscious expectations that stem from my reservoir of need and deficiency, disappointment is inevitable. Nothing on this earth will supply for such vast hunger. There may be a temporary supply, but to the caverns of our need only our Maker can reach!
He has decreed that we’re entitled to that reach but it often doesn’t fit our liking. His ways can look so odd, confusing and disrupting. Rarely do we understand them. As a baby is “entitled” to its mother’s milk and embrace, so we are entitled to our Maker’s care & attention. Only because He is that kind of being. But while a baby naturally demands, we must humbly open our hands to what’s given and to the hidden, obscure woo-ings that draw us to a deeper Source of love beyond.
“…such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is too high, I cannot attain to it.” Psalm 139:6
Where do you notice subtle, misplaced entitlements in your soul?
(What do your unmet expectations tell you about yourself?)
“Only in God….” Psalm 62:1