Should Christians ever be disappointed?

    

     We reach, we hope, we apply, we wait….and we wonder why something we desire did not happen. Early in our lives we learn that everything we set our heart and mind on, does not necessarily come our way.

Girls can, do and will say no, if we ask them out! The boy you have a crush on, for no reason at all….looks the other way.

Employers will look past our eager faces, and well prepared resumes, with a full complement of vast experience, and stellar references….and someone else gets the call!

We wait for an opportunity were sure is coming, but wait is all we do. The phone at last rings, and its someone wanting you to by a time share in paradise…somewhere, far from where you are, both figuratively and literally!

Disappointments, we try to say, don’t matter, but hear “no” often enough, and they take their toll. Life sometimes moves slowly.

Have you ever noticed it is as if we live from hope to hope, no sooner than something wonderful and unexpected breaks into our lives….and we set our collective sights on a new target…never stopping to thank God for what we do have! We  need to savor moments, after all thats what life is, just moments one after another.

Should Christians ever be disappointed?

Think with me. Hearing no, means someone else hears yes. Shouldn’t we be happy sometimes for what no means to us….because of what it means to and for someone else?

What would happen if we believed God was really watching over us, and that He has a plan?

That His delays were not necessarily His denials, and a closed door to us, was an open door for someone else just as earnest, and hopeful, and that was ok!

What if, we believed God’s Word when we read:

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. 12 O Lord of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you! (Psalm 84: 10-12).
I have had many disappointments in life, I am trying to learn to trust.

If we would all just trust, we wouldn’t worry about the closed doors, and the No’s of life...it would be more than enough to know that the Lord knows just where we are!

And when it comes right down to it, our life yielded to Him is the “Yes” that matters most!

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