“Disappointment is the gap between what I expect and what I experience.”

A thought by Steven Furtick, (2014-02-11) from his book, Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others (Kindle Locations 2857-2858). The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

And we all have a bunch of those don’t we? And there is real danger in there.

One of the phrases that I have quoted to the point I’m sure of annoyance to my family is the phrase, “too high expectations bring about frustration.” And we all have experienced that haven’t we?

For some it is their mate, to others it could be their occupations, or maybe life itself. But there is real danger in there.

Steven continues, “Disappointed expectations, when full-grown, give birth to chronic discouragement. If you allow this discouragement to run rampant in your life, you’ll lose your hope.” Again this is the follow ground that the Enemy sows his lies.

Now here is the key and I quote Steven, “Giving in to discouragement pacifies your disappointment— at first. Then you realize the pacifier is poisonous, because as believers, when we lower our expectation to the level of our experience, we factor God out of the equation. Instead of looking for His favor in every situation, we begin to anticipate the outcomes we dread. And since much of our experience is regulated by the level of our expectation, we begin to get what we were expecting. And we’re not surprised.”

That is not the life that God has for us. Just take those disappointments, those expectations to Him. Yes many of those disappointments come because of our choices without His guidance and then we blame Him but some just come because “His will is not done on earth as it is in Heaven.”

I am so glad that He is not disappointed in us. He loves us and has great expectations for us but He also looks at us with grace and understanding. He is also waiting on us to come with those disappointments and expectations and ready to use them and many times fulfill them. He is not done with us. Let’s grow in our trust and dependence on Him.

So where are you disappointed?

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