When You Feel Disappointed
We face circumstances twenty-four hours everyday, so is disappointment. No one gets to skate through life without it. That is because disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air. Moses’ world must have crumpled when he saw the Red Sea in front of him as he was being chased by the Egyptians, same with the guy next door when the stock market crushed. Both guys were devastated but the difference is that this guy must have saw the incident as a dead end – to his dreams, career, and happiness; whereas Moses, who knows God as He is, viewed it as a crossroad.
When life doesn’t turn out like you expected, it won’t help to be demanding to God, or to have a pity party for yourself, don’t even get jealous, or worst, blame others for your mishaps. Instead, hear God’s message. Along with the other gifts that God gave us, He also allowed each one of us to have a personal line with Him. We can talk to Him anytime of the day and tell Him our concerns and wait for His answers. We can do this through prayer, it doesn’t have to be a formal one, just a simple conversation with Him will do. Aside from this He’ll use our simple conversation with ordinary people to give us encouragements and to create miracles.
See God’s purpose. Behind every problem and disappointment is a purpose. If we see life’s situation through the lens of God we’ll realize that He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, He depends more on circumstances to mold us, than He depends on our reading the Bible. And when things get tough be steadfast on our faith “For the Lords is close to the broken hearted; He rescues those who are crushed in spirit.” Ps.34:18.
Worship God’s Son. When we feel abandoned, and out of options, when the pain is great, we turn to God alone. This is when we say our most heartfelt prayer and have our most intimate moment with our Lord, and this is worship. Our most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in our darkest days. This doesn’t mean that God rejoices over our sorrow, likewise, He is delighted to see us trusting in Him amidst our troubles and He is most pleased by our dependency to His plans.
God’s care did not promise to keep us from life’s storms, he promised instead to keep us through them. He will calm the storm around us, but more often than not he’ll calm the storm within us. Let us not be afraid nor be wary of disappointments, for every scar holds a story and each story carries a lesson… a lesson of love from our Father who sees us through it. Live life!