Life has many
disappointments. Disappointments may lead to sadness, depression,
anger, bitterness, resentment and sometimes despair. Some people have
many disappointments, while others seem to have few. Which person are
you?
Disappointment is an
interesting word; It includes the word appointment - something we
have planned, scheduled, anticipated, expected combined with the
prefix dis – to negate; Disappointment is to expect something and
then to be denied what was expected.
There are two
solutions to life's disappointments. The first solution is to keep
the appointment – that is to get from life what you expect. If all
your expectations are met or exceeded you are not disappointed. The
other solution to life's disappointments is to not have appointments.
The fewer our expectations the fewer disappointments. No expectations
– no disappointments. Of course, this is easier to say than to do.
But there is help to be had.
As Christian who
have the Word of God at our fingertips. We are well equipped to
minimize disappointments. If we know the truth of God and we expect
the truth of God, then we will never be disappointed! If we expect
what God says-what God says will be, and our expectations will be
met; we will not be disappointed.
Our disappointments
come from either not knowing what God has said, or not believing what
God says, or having expectations that arise from some source outside
of what God says. Then, like the rest of the world, great
disappointment awaits us.
We could say that
the transformed mind of the follower of Jesus changes our
expectations to be consistent with the truth of God so that we get
what we expect and therefore minimize disappointments in our lives.
This is life
changing! It is just one of the ways that the truth of God sets His
children free. Followers of Jesus have the promises of God, believe
the promises of God and therefore, because God fulfills his promises,
we have our expectations met. The world does not have the promises of
God and people of the world have only expectations that ultimately
lead to disappointment.
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