Expect God's Best

​Everyone has expectations.
What you and I expect effects what we experience. Our hopes, dreams, what we anticipate, and look forward to is important.
Today I want to address our expectations of God.
If you are a professing Christian, do you expect God’s best? Honestly, do you expect, hope for, look forward to God’s best for your life?
Three months ago, while I was waiting on the Lord the Holy Spirit whispered to my spirit “Steve, expect God’s best”.  
“Expect God’s best” was significant and timely for me. I was seriously pondering what might happen in the future. Wondering where in the world our mixed-up world was heading and how it would impact me and my loved ones.
The Lord answered my questioning with “Expect God’s best!”
Satan hates the thought of expecting God’s best. The devil knows God’s love is the best of the best.  The evil one’s hatred is the worst of the worst. His strategy is for you and me to expect the worst in life, especially from God.
The world system, that rejects the Kingdom of God, always expects the worst, never the best.  In addition to our soul’s arch enemy and the world, our fallen. sinful nature tends to lean to the worst rather than the best. You and I know we do this at times.
It is too easy and spiritually/emotionally deadly for you and me to think the worse rather than God’s best.
Sound hopeless? Not at all.
I believe expecting God’s best is a choice. A choice followed by discipline to keep choosing to believe God’s best for my life every single day.
How do we know God has His best in mind for us? Romans 8:31-32 is one passage that says so.
“What then shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us.? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up or us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?”
I can expect God’s best because He is for me. Nobody can come against me and succeed. A pastor commented “If God is for me, everybody else might as well be!” Amen to that.
God loves me and is for me. He demonstrated that love by sending His own Son, His only Son, Jesus, from heaven to die on a cross to save me from my sins.
God the Father did not withhold His only Son, His best, back from you and me.
When we see Jesus hanging on the Cross and rising from the dead the message is clear from God: this is how much I love you. I gave up my very best or you!
Then verse 32 tells us if God did not hold back Jesus from us, certainly He will “freely give us all things.” All things…. whatever I need to successfully fulfill God’s will for my life.
Because God gave the greater, greatest gift of His Son, I can rest assured He will supply the lesser gifts I need. He loves me that much. Therefore, I can indeed expect His best from Him!  
In verses 33-39 Paul lays out all the worst stuff that can come against you and me. Paul was convinced, completely persuaded that nothing, absolutely nothing can separate us from the love of God. Christ’s followers overwhelmingly conquer life because Jesus loves us.
How can you and I not expect God’s best when He has done all of this for us?
Life lesson for me: Expect God’ best no matter what circumstances confront me. Up, down or all around, trust God for His best. God never gives us less than His best. Less than best is not in His character. He calls me to walk by faith in Christ, believing and expecting to receive God’s best!
His love is the best thing I can expect from Him every day. I do not need much more than that!
The best way to know God’s best for your life is to study the Bible.
God’s best is for you today!
I challenge you to confess with your mouth every day “Lord, I expect your best!”.
Experience a great day because you are expecting God’s best!
“My soul waits in in silence for God only, for my hope, expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold, I will not be shaken.” Psalm 62:5
A Word For Your Week: Expect God’s best then rest in Him.