Evening: Psalm 138, 139:1-17; Luke 7:18-35
Ever
had your hopes dashed? Our expectations about how God should act shape
how we respond to events. Some of us think God should do as we expect
and complain when something else happens. Or we say that just ‘proves’
God doesn’t exist. This is why TS Eliot wrote, “Wait without hope, for
hope would be hope for the wrong thing.” Eliot did not deny hope; he
simply wanted hope to be more than wishful thinking, grounded in patient
trust. Jesus and John the Baptist defied people’s expectations. Did
that prove them false? Check – are your expectations misplaced?
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