Psalm 33:4,22 "For the word of the Lord is right and true, He is faithful in all He does...May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in You."
In the popular movie, Forrest Gump, the the phrase "Momma always said, life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get" became popular. However, I don't think that life is always like a box of chocolates because no matter what kind of chocolate is in the box, it's never disappointing, because it's chocolate!
However, life is full of disappointment. Like the time I was at work and I got a calzone from the cafeteria. I was so incredibly excited, it looked great on the outside, I was starving and my mouth was watering. But as I took my first bite, I immediately realized something was wrong. Instead of putting pepper into it, someone had put WHOLE peppercorns - over 30 of them to be exact. I was gravely disappointed!! I also remember a time when I was a child and I became a sucker for a mail ad. There were these beautiful shoes for sale that I just knew that I had to have. After I convinced my parents to let me get them, I saved and saved and saved for them. And finally the day came that I had enough money to order them! (Now who really orders shoes from the coupon section of the mail, I don't know, that should have been my first clue!!) When they arrived, I ripped open the box, and low and behold, it was the ugliest and cheapest pair of shoes I had ever seen. I was so disappointed. But embarrassing or not, I still wore them to school even though I could barely keep them on - I guess I was just hoping all the time and money I had put into them would somehow turn magically worth it! But it didn't happen!! (Thank goodness I have never ordered mail order shoes again!)
Life is full of disappointment. The greatest disappointment is when we are disappointed in people. We are disappointed because we have expectations of perfection on people who aren't perfect. Recently, in my own life it seems that I could easily turn away from a lot of things that have disappointed me, give up and never look back. But I know that that is not the answer. Life is hard sometimes, and disappointment can be difficult to handle. We often even disappoint ourselves. The fact is that we are all human, and we all make mistakes because we still, until we reach heaven, have a carnal nature. However, there is an amazing truth that I have been constantly reminded of as I'm reading through the bible. God will never disappoint us. He will never let us down. He is always faithful. He always fulfills his promises, no matter what we do! (That means the good promises and the bad promises such as punishment for sins) What he says, He will do. I'm reminded of a chorus that Steven Curtis Chapman wrote years ago that states, "My Redeemer is faithful and true. Everything He has said He will do, And every morning His mercies are new. My Redeemer is faithful and true." Our redeemer IS faithful and true. He is the only one to place our trust in. He is the only one that we can really depend on! Everything in life will disappoint us eventually - except God! Even when we don't understand how God is working. Even when we don't see his hand in our circumstances and in the circumstances around us, He has not forgotten the promises that He has given us. What an amazing truth!
2 comments:
Thankyou! Do I know you?
Oh my goodness its Spring!! The last time I saw you I was pregnant with Addyson, CRAZY!!
How are you doing???? I didn't know you had a blog. When I saw Spring I thought it was where you lived. haha
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