Living With Less Podcast

This episode is covering what happens when we take God out of our plans and create our own expectations of what something should look like. In 1 John 5:21 it tell us to keep away from anything that might take God's place in our hearts. This is what expectation does. It creates a tendency in our heart that wants to take God's will out and have everything go our way. In that happening we end up having our expectations unmet and find ourselves in a harder place than we started. 1 John 5:21 "Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God's place in your hearts." Expectation - a strong belief that something will happen. What expectations are and what they do It's an idea of how we think things will be. Not all expectations are bad but they become an issue when what we want to have becomes greater than what God wants us for us in that moment/season. In my story I shared, I shared how I thought this would be perfect for our marriage and make us feel closer. I never though about what God want