DEALING WITH DISAPPOINTMENTS

Romans 5:5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

We probably all experience disappointments at some stage of life, when we feel let down, but I read this in a book recently “Don’t remain in your disappointments.” That really struck my thinking.

The tendency is for us to do just that! We can become stuck and fixated on the betrayal, the disappointment in people or circumstances, even disappointment with ourselves when we don’t perform as we thought we should. The trouble is, disappointment can lead to bitterness and resentment, even anger at God which leads us to want to ask the age old question “Why? Why did this happen to me or my loved ones. Why God?”

We shall never know the answers to some of our “Whys” this side of eternity, but we do know our God is a good God and He is for us and not against us and He loves us to the Cross and back. We do know He has given us His own Holy Spirit to lead and guide and comfort us through all the “Whys” of life.

Our disappointments can be a testing ground of our faith, when we learn where we need God’s help and His strengthening. My older brother was saying how he’s finding he’s talking to the Lord more and more throughout his day, going to Him about everything all the time. I thought that sounds like dwelling in the secret place of the Most High.🙂

When we go through disappointments, when the valley seems especially dark and the mountain top seems a long way off, we can know the security of the ‘secret place’ where we can go and tell the Lord all about our disappointments and resentments, and leave them there. It’s where He gives us new hope, new assignments, maybe a new perspective, and new joys He has prepared for us since before the world was made.

So let me encourage you today to not remain in your disappointments, don’t get stuck in your resentment or anger, but give them all to the Lord and know with a certainty that He has something far greater in store for you to replace them. His hope does not disappoint, He has ‘Godappointments’ for you.😊 Thank You Lord. 

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.