Updated March 14, 2024

“My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.” (Psalm 62:5)

When we are looking forward to some favorable result, we at times may be faced with bad news, which can result in a feeling of disappointment. But our expectations to succeed are to be based on God’s intervention, even in the midst of unfavorable looking circumstances.

Let’s not decide and declare defeat before even starting. In Romans 8:31 we are told, “… If God be for us, who can be against us?” 

Let us remember that with God we should expect to overcome and to win. God is happy when we trust Him to work things out for us. When hope is waning, a person may not feel motivated to fight for anything. So maintaining confidence in God is important.

When God has given us a promise, we need to guard against letting challenges along the way cause us to lower our expectations of what the outcome will be.

Though things don’t work out along the way as we expect, that is not an indication that God has forgotten us. To be able to stand we need to fully depend on God’s strength. So as we go forward, we can:

• confront our fears in God’s power;
• have a correct view of the external;
• have a correct view of ourselves;
• embrace an optimistic and joyful attitude;
• take responsibility for our actions;
• let God be the leader of our lives; and
• expect God to do in our lives what He has said that He would do.

Question:

What Bible verse can you dwell on today that reminds you of God’s plans for your life?

Next blog post in the series will be focused on Dealing With Anger.