Misplaced Expectations

For He is the only one from Whom we can never expect too much, and yet, He is often the only One from Whom we expect so little. How well our God provides and satisfies, to overflowing!

One great secret of unhappiness is the habit of indulging in exaggerated expectations. From money, from marriage, from business, from houses, from children, from worldly honors, from political success—people are constantly expecting what they never find—and the great majority die disappointed. Happy is he who has learned to say at all times, " My soul, waits only upon God—my expectation is from Him" (Psalm 62:5).
~J.C. Ryle