Dealing With Disappointment

Sometimes, the day after a big event or holiday can be a let down. I enjoy the day after Christmas because I normally don't have any obligations and can relax and enjoy the day. Today was that kind of day. I was able to sleep in and then spend the day cleaning and organizing and running out to catch a sale-all things I love to do. But we were planning for an exciting day tomorrow-we were supposed to go on a Hot Air Balloon ride. But, the phone rang at 8:15 pm to tell us that due to the cold front coming through they were canceling our ride-disappointment! We have been planning this trip for the last six months and now we have to re-book it for June. It was a disappointment to all of us. I was excited to be able to go up in the air and take pictures and see the beautiful landscape from the air and be able to experience something I have never done before. As I live one day at a time, there are many disappointments that I will experience in my lifetime.  People will disappoint me at one time or another. Circumstances may not go the way I had planned and will cause me disappointments from time to time. As long as we are here on earth we do not live in a perfect world, due to sin, and disappointments will occur. How you handle them is a testament to your relationship with Christ. Think of some of the disappointments that God has endured over the years. He created a world out of nothing and put everything on it and then created man and woman so that He could have fellowship-only to have man sin and have to be put out of the garden. 

Genesis 3:22-24

"Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life."

He had to send a flood during the time of Noah due to all the sin.

Genesis 7:7-12

"So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. Of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights."

I also think about how Christ chose to come to earth as a man so that He could die on the cross as the ultimate sacrifice and take our sins on Himself so that we can receive the gift of salvation-and then to be rejected by those that He came to save.

John 1:10-11

"He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him."

But He still loves us and wants us to accept Him as our personal Savior. My disappointments pale in comparison to what Christ has endured. Doesn't this help put it all in perspective for you? Take your disappointments to Christ-lay them at His feet and ask Him to help you overcome them.

My picture for today? Another small disappointment-my phone was charging yesterday and there was a short in the cord and it burned my phone. It won't charge anymore and so I am unable to use it until I take it to the store tomorrow and have them look at it (it isn't under warranty any longer and may cost me). We will have to wait and see.