Five Minute Friday: Expectation

Yeah, there are a lot of these in my life, expectations. Like don't lie to me. How many times do we have to have the same lesson? Or how about, you've learned it's wrong to draw on furniture walls floors the lawnmower but every chance you get you're putting graffiti on my stuff. I love that you love to draw but quit it. I hate that you lie to me about whether you washed your hair in the shower, I can tell you didn't so just tell the truth already.

Are my expectations for them too high? Tell the truth? Don't draw on anything other than paper? Too much to ask? I'm weary of it, sometimes, I don't even know what to do when they don't learn the lessons. Yes keep going forward. And what's my expectation? That you'll learn it someday, soon, I hope. And what do you expect of me? To ignore your behavior? You know I can't.

What pops into my head is "Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly with your God." That's what You expect of me. I don't understand how justice and mercy fit together that way, or how consequences for bad behavior fit with mercy. Mercy seems like giving in, letting go of teaching the lesson, or teaching that you can break the rules and sometimes Mercy steps in and there are no consequence.

Show me, Lord, what you expect of me. Show me what Justice and Mercy look like together. I've got no clue. I've got so far to go. Please show me the way, Your way, Your expectations for me.

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