Disappointment

Many times things do not go as we have planned. We start or become involved in something from marriage to buying a new car and we believe it will all work out fine but life has a way of turning upside down quickly. All of a sudden the marriage is on the rocks and the new car is knocking like it is filled with rocks.

What happens? Doesn't God care? Why do these important things fall apart?

We normally react in one of three ways when we face life's disappointments.
1. To run from the problem.
2. To hide ourselves from the problem.
3. To go into self pity about the problem.

The first sign of a healthy understanding of discouragements comes when we believe certain truths about our Lord:

1. God's love is consistent - unconditional! You need to sing this out as you drive, when you're in the shower. When you listen to music.
2. God's love is revealed in special ways even through the sins we go through.
3. God's love has always anticipated the coming needs of every human.

Only when we move our eyes off of ourselves to our Lord will fear and discouragement leave. Only when we face the "death to self" is there true life to find. So often we hope in the things that are dying instead of the things that lasts forever. Place your heart deep into things that are beyond the touch of disappointment. Trust in the everlasting Lord.

Romans 5: 1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 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.