When Hope Doesn’t Happen
Psalm 27:5 “For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.”
What do we do with our disappointments? We could do what Miss Haversham did. Remember in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations? Jilted by her fiancé just prior to the wedding…. She closed all the blinds in the house, stopped every clock, left the wedding cake on the table to gather cobwebs, and wore her wedding dress until it hung in yellow decay around her shrunken form. Her wounded heart consumed her life.
We can follow the same course… or we can follow the example of the Apostle Paul. His goal was to go to Spain… however, God sent him to prison. Sitting in a Roman jail, Paul could have made the same choice as Miss Haversham, but he didn’t. Instead he said, “As long as I am here, I might as well write a few letters.” Hence your Bible has the Epistles to Philemon, the Philippians, the Colossians and the Ephesians.
Challenge:
Why don’t you try writing something about God’s goodness in your journal when disappointment strikes today?
Maybe you could look at your disappointments as opportunities to praise God and grow a little stronger in your relationship to Him.
At any rate disappointment WILL COME… but you can be ready in advance, and have victory over ___________.
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this is true some times i will try and bury my dissapointments and hide i gess i should hold my head hight and prise god for what he has given me and for the day i have
thank you pastor mike for the light you have given here thank you so much
god bless all
HOPE? today my shift changes a few hours earlier which throws a wrench in the works. I hope!! that I am able to stand, and God carries me thru the new opinions and personalities added to the mix. I hope we are all able to stand.