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An Expected End

 



 

Jeremiah 29;11; For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Sometimes last week, I was in my room in the night, seated on the rug and leaning on the sides of three mattresses stacked one atop the other.

 I was about to lift a spoon from the plate of rice in front of me, when the devil, like he has been doing for weeks now, flashed an ugly thought about my parents to my mind.

I had been confronting this thought for a while now – and at times they break me down, but this night I spoke audible words against them. I quoted Jeremiah 29;11, and the Holy Spirit overwhelmed my mind with a dimension of light on this verse, that I had never discovered in fifteen years or more.

After saying this scripture, the Holy Spirit shifted my attention to the Expected End. The next thing He said was; what is the end you are expecting about your parents? Because that is what I will give you! I mentioned the kind of end I was expecting, and He told me that was it!

He would go on to explain to me that expectations are everything. He said He gives His children only the kind of end they are expecting.

 The future is not designed to be a shock to us, as God’s children. The future is simply the results of the expectations our minds are accumulating in the present. Our minds can be the barrier to the fulfillment of God’s counsels for our lives. Because, here’s the thing – all these dramas I am now writing about happened in my mind.

Expectations are built in the mind. It is why there is a continuous need to educate our minds with what God has said about us. Our expectations must be informed by the words of the Lord, for what He gives us is not just an end, it is an expected end.

Now, go realign your expectations with the Word! El has your best interest at heart!

Shalom,

The Feranmi Oyedele.

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