Disappointment

"You can't always get what you want, but you get what you need." Mick Jagger and Keith Richards			

We want things we don't always get. Even good, smart, healthy, honest things, things that will make our family's life better.

Disappointment always raises questions, where was God, did I not hear him, did I make a bad choice?

God's ways are not our ways, so why do we think we can figure it out? God will do what God will do. Why fight it? Guess what, you can't. He created the universe by the way.

It's ok to get mad and let off steam (see Jeremiah), we are human after all.

Disappointment comes from missing what we expected. If we line up our expectations with God's will, we won't be disappointed. The problem is we never know God's will. Oh, we know it on the macro level, but we don't know it on the micro level.

And now I have a word for you who brashly announce, "Today, at the latest, tomorrow, we're off to such and such a city for the year: we're going to start a business and make a lot of money." You don't know the first thng about tomorrow. You're nothing but a wisp of fog, catching a brief bit of sun before disappearing. Instead, make it a habit to say, "If Master wills it and we're still alive, we'll do this or that. James 4:13-15

God loves us more than we love our own children (that is a hard concept to grasp), so we can trust him and depend on him. He wants the best for us. When disappointment comes, and it will, rest in the knowledge that God knows everything about you, and he wants the best for you, even more than you want the best for your children.