Facing Disappointment!
"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."
Romans 5: 5
John Koessler once wrote, “You can expect to meet
Jesus in the most unlikely place—at the intersection
of Expectation and Disappointment.
The Jesus you meet there is not the Jesus of your dreams.
Nor is He the airbrushed Christ of popular Christianity. He
is the enigmatic and unpredictable Jesus of the Bible.
You will not forget Him.”
Facing disappointment is hard, but it helps to remember
the definition of disappointment. It’s God’s way of showing
you a better plan. Someone once called disappointment
His appointment and there is truth to that.
When it comes to the Lord Himself and His future for us, there
cannot be—and never will be—any disappointment. The world
defines hope as something we would like to happen, but God’s
hope is something guaranteed to happen.
It is a sure and certain hope. His kind of hope does not
disappoint. But when life itself disappoints you, you’ll find
Jesus at the intersection ready to reassure and redirect you.
"I infer that losses, disappointments…
are God’s workmen."
Samuel Rutherford
