As we celebrate Easter Sunday today, I have to wonder what the disciples were feeling when waking up on that first Easter day when Jesus rose from the dead. He had told them that He would be raised three days after dying on the cross. I wonder if they expected Him to do as He’d promised? Surely they must have had some sense of either expectation or at least a glimmer of hope! I wonder if any of them expected absolutely nothing or no-one to come out of the tomb…Even if they did have hope, I’m sure they were blown away when they saw Him alive and well- its the kind of moment where I’d love to be a fly on the wall! Whatever their expectations were- I’m quite convinced He surpassed them all in leaps and bounds!

Twelve years ago I developed a Plantar Fasciitis on one of my feet. The injury was caused by running which was something I absolutely loved to do. This condition made it almost impossible to walk let alone run. The pain was excruciating and the prognosis from a few specialists was dismal. I was told that it would be a pain that I would have to bear for the rest of my days. 

I asked a few ladies in our prayer group to pray for me as I was going to my nieces wedding a few months later and did not want to wear orthopedic shoes with my beautiful gown! Some of these well meaning women even suggested lovingly that “perhaps God doesn’t want you to run “! 

I wasn’t giving up and literally 2 days before leaving for the wedding I was healed! I had crawled in great pain to the loo at 2 am and had a meltdown with God  boldly declaring that He had all the ability needed to heal me so it was probably a choice He had made to deny me my healing. I went back to bed so filled with self pity and anger towards God and when I woke up and started to hobble, I discovered that I could actually walk completedly free from any pain at all! 

My Physio appointment was later that day and she just shook her head and stated that I probably had a “ direct line”-no surprises there!

Needless to say, I left for Atlanta two days later, wore high heels to the wedding and even went for a run the morning of the wedding. Twelve years later I am still healed!

As humans we all live in a constant state of expectation. We wait either with a sense of dread of a sense of excitement. 

I have been blessed with the latter. I’m waiting for that blessing to literally fall on me – whether it’s a miraculous healing of my back issues or an expectation for God to rearrange the plans of somebody else that will benefit me. Perhaps it’s the provision of something that I’ve been praying for which can be life changing or just something that will make me happy.

Whatever my expectation is about, I always expect God to show up and so each morning in the waiting period I’m waking up and asking “ is today the day ?”

For some however the expectation is that God will not show up, does not exist or if He does, why would He listen to me?

We get to decide what our expectation is and we also get to decide what we base our expectations on.

We expect good or we expect bad- whatever it is for us, there is always an expectation. What are you expecting today ?

But the needy will not be ignored forever; the hopes of the poor will not always be crushed. Psalm 9:18

“When hope is crushed, the heart is crushed, but a wish come true fills you with joy.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭13‬:‭12‬ ‭GNT‬‬

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21