Expectancy: Variations On A Theme

Let’s take the lid off Expectancy through Variations on a Theme:  I have seen artists do variations on a theme, like roses for example.  With twenty artists painting roses, the colors and shapes and sizes and details vary to such extremes that the results are unique beyond imagination.  I believe that it would help us clear some of the fog about our life calling and purpose if we expected a variation on a theme, if we expected our lives to produce a unique expression of obedience.   For too long many of us have lived in EXPECTANCY that is limited in scope, especially regarding purpose, calling and fulfillment.  Purpose often gets narrowed down to constricted categories as either religious, noble callings or secular, ignoble callings that are simply necessary functions in society.   Experience and tradition narrow thinking even further by defining the most noble to be callings of God as those within the church structure or system.   Even the gifts of the Spirit have been so narrowly confined that we don’t expect a word of knowledge outside a church service nor do we expect a working of miracles in secular corporations or classrooms.  All these limited definitions have dictated our EXPECTANCY level and eventually our outcomes.  The theme of all our lives should be to glorify God on the earth by accomplishing the work , (effort or occupation) He has given us to do, (John 17:4, NAU)   There is no need to box that in, instead, let’s keep the theme of doing what you were born to do open to the Holy Spirit’s variations.  Let’s allow the Holy Spirit to direct our EXPECTANCY and determine how we paint a rose in our lifetime. 

(This is the sixth excerpt from Kathy’s article “Expectancy.”  SEEC Magazine Volume 17 Issue 5)