GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Have you ever heard of the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens? The story is divided into three sections with the expectations that the orphan Philip Pirrip (a.k.a. Pip) has about his life. Pip lives a normal existence with his sister and her husband Joe. He is an apprentice to Joe and strives to be a blacksmith. But this changes when a lawyer comes to him and tells him that he has received some large property from an anonymous person. Now Pip has great expectations for his life that are better than simply being a blacksmith. He is to live in London as a gentleman and his life is dramatically changed.
Do you ever feel that people have too many expectations of you? How can you live up to these expectations? Do you have great expectations of yourself and wonder how you can live up to them?
And finally, what are God's expectations of yourself?
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P.S. The picture above is from a movie version of "Great Expectations".