John Bevere - Are Your Expectations Setting You Up For Offense?
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Now, in all my years of traveling, I have discovered something while ministering: the person who can hurt you the deepest is the person who is closest to you. Why is that? You know, David said it like this: "It wasn't an enemy that reproached me; I could bear that, but it was you, my brother, my equal, my companion. We went to the house of God together; we heard the word of God together. You're the one who has lifted your heel against me."
What is David saying? He's saying that I expect the world to treat me wrong, but you see, our expectation of the world—let's say this is Ground Zero—our expectation of the world is zero.
Our expectation of Christians is this high, our expectation of our pastors is about this high, and our expectation of our spouse is about this high. So if the world does that much for us, they've been that much of a blessing. If Christians only do that much for us, they've offended me by that much. If my pastor has only done that much, he's offended me by that much. Thus, we set ourselves up for offense by our expectations.