Think About It

Are we under-expecting from people? Throughout the years many of us have run into a problem where we expected people to act better than they did. We became disappointed when people didn’t do what they should have done or didn’t reach the potential they could have attained. (Oh, and by the way, I am sure that many of them could have said the same thing about us.) In days gone by, there seemed to be a higher bar that people were expected to reach and, when they didn’t do it, we became disheartened. I feel like there has been a shift in our collective mindset recently and we have intentionally lowered the minimum acceptable behavior. No, the problem isn’t that godliness or truth has changed, the issue is that we have just come to expect less from each other. We are willing to tolerate less in an effort to unify more. While this movement to dummy-down our behavior may have taken off in modern society, it hasn’t changed God’s expectations for us. Interestingly, if the truth were