Have you ever Experienced Life Disappointments?
Life is Full of Disappointments
God is faithful in Our Disappointments
Disappointment is an unavoidable aspect of life in this sin-riddled world. Disappointment comes in many forms:
Longed for healing, for a job, for a baby, or for a wife. Divorce, prodigal children, lost opportunities; you have faithfully and earnestly prayed for weeks, months, and even years. But you are still sick, still unemployed, still childless, or still single.
Or married to a spouse that is not saved. Maybe he is not very nice and is waiting for him to change, but he seems not to.
Do you feel disappointed? Maybe you are disappointed in God since you've been praying and fasting? Are you disappointed in God? Have doubt that God cares or is hearing your prayer?
Can you relate to some type of disappointment in your life? Your life is not going as you wanted, and you feel frustrated? How much longer?
You Lack No Good Thing
One promise that’s helped me over the years is Psalm 34:10, “The young lions suffer want and hunger, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.” This promise is for those who seek the Lord — those who are saved by faith in Christ and seeking to know him more.
“Those who seek God will lack no good thing. If something is good, God will give it to you.
God promises that those who seek him will lack no good thing. This means that if something is good, God will give it to you.
Now that’s hard to swallow. After all, you are still sick, unemployed, childless, or single.
So, how is God fulfilling his promise to you?
The Greatest Good
What helped me understand this was to ask: What is the greatest good?
David says, I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.” (Psalm 16:2). And Asaph, Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. (Psalm 73:25). And Paul, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. (Philippians 3:8)
So the greatest good is God himself — knowing God in the person of Jesus Christ.
So what does God mean when he promises we will lack no good thing?
That’s what Paul experienced with his thorn in the flesh, “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me” (2 Corinthians 12:9).
So, when God promises that we will lack no good thing, he means we will lack nothing that would bring us more of God. We will have absolutely everything that will bring us more of God. So if you lack healing, a job, children, or a wife, you are not lacking any good thing because God has ordained your lack to bring you more of himself.
Why Am I Disappointed?
When I feel disappointed by God, it’s because at that moment there’s something I’m longing for more than him, whether it be healing, employment, a child, a wife. As good as healing, employment, children, and marriage might be, none of them will come close to satisfying me as much as God himself.
So when I’m disappointed by God, there’s a problem with my faith. I’m not trusting that God is who he says he is for me in Jesus. I do not trust him as my all-satisfying treasure.
So what can I do? Here are eight steps I have found helpful in dealing with disappointment.
Come to Jesus Christ with your disappointment, trusting him to meet you and change your heart (Psalm 40:1–3).
Confess that you are longing for something else more than him. Ask him to forgive you through the cross. Receive assurance of complete forgiveness (1 John 1:9).
Please ask the work of the Spirit to change your heart, strengthen your faith, and enable you once again to experience Jesus Christ as your all-satisfying treasure (John 6:35).
Since the Spirit works through the word, find Scriptures describing God’s love, power, majesty, and promises concerning God as your all-satisfying treasure. Pray earnestly over these Scriptures. Fight to trust them (Galatians 3:5).
Continue praying over and trusting these Scriptures until you feel the Spirit changing your heart, and you once again experience Jesus Christ as your all-satisfying treasure (1 Peter 1:8).
Pray over God’s promise that he will ordain every trial to bring you even more heart-satisfaction in him (2 Corinthians 4:17). Do this until the Spirit strengthens your faith that whatever you lack will bring you even more of God.
Also, pray over God’s promise that he will take care of everything else you need (health, work, money) in such a way that it will bring you even more of him (Philippians 4:13, 19; Matthew 6:33).
Continue to pray for the other things you desire (healing, employment, children, marriage), but fight to keep trusting in Jesus as your all-satisfying tre
Traci Morin
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