Disappointment...
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We all experience it...from the day we are born until the day we die! Disappointment! Unmet needs, unfulfilled expectations, failed relationships, frustrated goals, and on and on...Disappointment!
Here is a little gem of a quote. I found it on a little card tucked way down in the bottom of a manila folder, and it says it well:
Disappointment:
God's way of dimming the glamour of the world and deepening our ability to enjoy Him.* Psalm 119:37
Think about it! Has this been your experience? It has mine. Years ago, when my health was breaking...and there were no answers...and there was no one to believe me -- not my doctors, not my loved ones -- that's when I found the Lord in the deepest part of my being.
Now I thank God for that very dark time...because I was abandoned to HIM! And I've never been the same.
Maybe you are facing deep disappointment right now. Turn your eyes away from the external things. Instead turn your attention to the Lover of your soul -- enjoy HIM as you never have before!
We pray for blessings, we pray for peace Comfort for family, protection while we sleep We pray for healing, for prosperity We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while You hear each spoken need Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops What if Your healing comes through tears? What if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You're near?
What if trials of this life Are Your mercies in disguise?
We pray for wisdom, Your voice to hear We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
And all the while You hear each desperate plea And long that we'd have faith to believe
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops What if Your healing comes through tears? And what if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You're near?
And what if trials of this life Are Your mercies in disguise?
When friends betray us, when darkness seems to win We know that pain reminds this heart That this is not, this is not our home It's not our home
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops What if Your healing comes through tears? And what if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You're near?
What if my greatest disappointments Or the aching of this life Is the revealing of a greater thirst This world can't satisfy?
And what if trials of this life The rain, the storms, the hardest nights Are Your mercies in disguise?
*Bill Gothard
