Comments on: Raising Expectations http://marcbackes.com/2008/04/28/raising-expectations/ ...laboring for the gospel as it transforms me, my city, and my world for all of eternity... Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:27:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: marcbackes http://marcbackes.com/2008/04/28/raising-expectations/#comment-42 marcbackes Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:12:14 +0000 http://marcbackes.com/2008/04/28/raising-expectations/#comment-42 Jason, Great points and I think those are very good expectations. I love the Job reference because many of us, me included, when suffering comes want to bow out and quit the fight. However, it's through that suffering, just as Jesus was, that we are perfected. Through our sins, our shame, our idiocy, we become more like Jesus because the gulf between our sin and His holiness becomes more apparent. Jason,

Great points and I think those are very good expectations. I love the Job reference because many of us, me included, when suffering comes want to bow out and quit the fight. However, it’s through that suffering, just as Jesus was, that we are perfected.

Through our sins, our shame, our idiocy, we become more like Jesus because the gulf between our sin and His holiness becomes more apparent.

]]> By: BB http://marcbackes.com/2008/04/28/raising-expectations/#comment-41 BB Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:10:04 +0000 http://marcbackes.com/2008/04/28/raising-expectations/#comment-41 I expect God to be my everything, everytime and everywhere. As for who I expect myself to be...I expect myself to be a Godly father, soon to be a Godly husband and someone of whom God can look at Satan and say "see my servant, Jason? You've tormented him and attacked him and twisted him and he still loves me and desires to serve me with all that he is." I don't think that's too high a goal. I expect God to be my everything, everytime and everywhere. As for who I expect myself to be…I expect myself to be a Godly father, soon to be a Godly husband and someone of whom God can look at Satan and say “see my servant, Jason? You’ve tormented him and attacked him and twisted him and he still loves me and desires to serve me with all that he is.”

I don’t think that’s too high a goal.

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