Paths of Bitter Disappointment can lead into a Highway of Sweet Attainment

Thank you for joining in today for some encouragement!  

As I began to think about what to share I had one word come to mind.

Disappointment.

Now that is not to say that I am very disappointed  right now. But it does mean that I have certainly had my share of disappointments and only God knows the season you are in right now.

-Paths of Bitter Disappointment can lead into a

Highway of Sweet Attainment

A disappointment is the feeling of sadness or displeasure caused by the nonfullfilment of one’s hopes or expectations.

Disappointment can be similar to regret. It differs in that a person feeling regret focuses primarily on the personal choice that contributed to a poor outcome, while a person feeling disappointment is focusing on the outcome itself.

Wow! Have you ever thought about the disappointments in your life and how the outcome of situations will greatly affect you in many ways.

If you are like me, so often we want to hold onto to the disappointments. Those moments when things don’t go the way we had hoped for! Those times when our children, family, and friends don’t respond or act the way we had imagined. Disappointment can come in all forms for each of our different lives. They are real and can truly affect our lives in significant ways. 

How about those moments that we had our hopes up for something and then realized that feeling of hopeless disappointment. It just didn’t turn out the way you thought.

In moments of disappointment in your own life, maybe you have whispered prayers that say:

·       Lord, I don’t understand.

·       Lord, this is not what I asked for.

·       How will I ever overcome this set back?

·       Lord, can you ever heal my hurt?

There are so many questions that can flood our hearts and minds in moments of bitter disappointment.  These places in our lives can affect our homes, marriages, children, jobs, churches, and just LIFE itself.

In these moments that we call disappointing maybe it is just God’s reappointing our steps as He knows what is best.

Psalm 32:8 (NLT) The LORD says, "I will guide you along the best 

pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you. 

Situations can certainly cause disappointment but let’s not miss what God might be doing in our lives. He has a plan and purpose that is certainly greater than what might be in our thoughts.

An unanswered prayer might be our best gift.

I love this quote from Helen Keller-

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Let’s be challenged today to release our lives and broken dreams to God! Let’s dare to trust Him!

Imagine a beautiful butterfly dipping down and landing on your hand. You could grab it and hold it tight, but what good would that be? How much better to open your hand and let it soar off. When we say goodbye to our disappointments, we are opening our hands and letting the disappointments go. We are letting God do His will in our lives. –(Jan and David Stoop)

Personally today, I am asking God to help me release those areas where I had in my mind how things NEEDED to be and give Him the authority to make things into what He KNOWS they SHOULD BE for my life.

-WON’T YOU JOIN ME?

God can restore, renew, clean up, and do his thing in a NEW way when we make the choice to get out of the way.

Isaiah 61: 1-3 ( NLT)

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me,

for the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.

He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted

and to claim that captives will be released

and prisoners will be freed. 

He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of the Lord's favor has come, and with it, the day of God's anger against their enemies. 

To all who mourn in Israel, he will give a crown of beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise instead of despair. 

In their righteousness, they will be like great oaks

that the Lord has planted for his own glory. 

Thank you for reading today! 

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Be encouraged! 

Pastor Lisa / overcominglife.info

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