Disappointment

A deep hurt that may come is disappointment. We expect things to happen in a certain way, and when they don’t, then we feel let down. We can be disappointed by people, or even by God if He chooses to direct our lives in a way other than we had hoped.

A woman wrote to me that during a meeting where I spoke on “The Healing of Life’s Hurts,” the Lord had ministered to her deep feelings of disappointment. Her disappointment was with God (as she put it) for “not healing my husband and for taking him to be with Himself.” On the way home from the meeting, she narrowly missed being involved in a serious accident, and the Lord whispered to her heart: “And you have been doubting My love for you?” Within hours the bitter pain she had been carrying for a number of years was healed.

Are you in the throes of disappointment at this moment? Have others let you down? Or perhaps you feel God has let you down, and, because He is God, you feel you ought not to feel that way; therefore, you are repressing your disappointment and pushing it down into your subconscious. Bring it to Him now. God is not going to get mad at you for telling Him that you are disappointed with Him. If you feel upset with God, then confess the hurt; tell Him exactly how you feel. Then, when it is all out and you admit you were wrong—and not He—surrender the hurt into His hands and experience the healing that the divine Comforter brings.

Further Study

Jn 11:6-22; Ps 13:1-6; 69:3; 2Pt 3:9

How did David express his disappointment?

What did Martha do about her disappointment?