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Danger of Disappointment in Your Crisis
I warn you in advance this is a long article but well worth the time to read it.
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Did you know that disappointments can be dangerous if taken to the extreme? We all will suffer and have probably suffered disappointments in our life and if you haven’t yet…keep living you will.
But why can they be dangerous. Isn’t disappointment a part of life, you say? Well yes, it is. But, there are times when the the disappointment and defeat may be so much that you feel completely dead inside, total loss of hope. You can be so broken and hurt that what you hoped for and waited for, longed for didn’t happen.
Does this describe you now or at some point in your life? Got your attention yet?
ANGUISH OF SOUL
Have you been or are you now in a place where you get up and go to sleep with the same pain or feel locked into a hopeless situation. Is that situation your job, family, marriage, finances, sin, dream for your future, etc? Do you feel you are in a constant battle with that thing and you can’t seem to gain the victory, or so it seems? You have sought counseling, no closure. You have fasted and prayed until you just feel you can’t utter a word to the Father God. Have you felt such disappointment that is causes you to feel such pain like this? This pain is called anguish. A sense of disappointment and hopelessness that no matter what it will not work, happen or come through. This constant battle wears on you and your spirit and you now feel anguish and disappointment of the soul. You can’t seem to get past the disappointments and pain. Does this describe you or someone you know? Maybe you are strong, maybe you’ve never been in this deep. But, chances are that someone you know is there now.
LET’S LOOK AT MOSES
Exodus 4 talks about Moses. Moses was at a deep place of anguish in his life at one point. Really? Yes, he was. He was called to lead the children Israel out of Egypt. God was with him. He stood before the leaders of Israel and did miraculous signs and wonders and they believed. He felt great. God is with me. Just imagine. He thought the people would surely be let go. Freedom is close. But, not so. Pharaoh increased the burden of the people. More work layed on them. Taskmasters whipped them. Moses’ obedience actually made their work harder. The slaves now had to make the same quota of brick but with no straw. What? God I thought you were with me!!! Moses did just what God said. Is that you? You obeyed God you believed and have this call from God but it got worse. Worse. Let’s go deeper.
DISAPPOINTED
Read Exodus 5: 20 21 — I will give you short version. The people are upset. Moses you made things worse since you came along into our lives. Since you have come every single thing has gotten worse. You have made it harder for us. Why are you here? So Moses, goes to the Lord and asks Him what is going on? I obeyed you. Why is it harder for them? Why are you treating your people so evil. They say I should have taken a sword and killed them. Why did you send me to them? Nothing I have done is working out. You have not delivered them. I see not ONE sign of you working here in our lives. Now what? Am I in your neighborhood yet?
This is you and me. This is what we say at this point in or lives when “it” seems to not be working out. Lord, I have obeyed you and nothing is working out. I have not seen you do ONE thing to fix this mess. It actually looks worse Lord. Why are you treating me this way? Don’t you see me Lord, don’t you love me Lord or hear me Lord?
NOT GOOD PLACE TO BE
Now this is NOT a good place to be in. This is great disappointment. If you are here you are at a major crossroads. Your at a place of choice. You only have two options when you get to this point. You either give in and surrender to the hopelessness you feel, the discouragement, the pain, the disappointment, the fear, the failure. You blame God and charge Him with being unfaithful to His word! OR…..you throw yourself into the love of Jesus and you serve Him with your whole life, mind, soul, spirit, and body and you remind yourself that you serve a mighty God and that He is on the throne and He cannot lie. You choose to take a giant leap of faith and never look back. It’s a choice.
But what happens…what does this God choice look like if you make it. Let’s get practical. If not, it won’t work and this will just be another article you read and another thing you scoff at.
HELP IN YOUR TIME OF ANGUISH
What if you don’t make that choice to surrender to God and you give in to the anguish and the disappointment? What will it look like?
Everytime and I do mean everytime you are in a place of disappointment like this God will always send you a word of help. Always. He won’t leave you out there to fend for yourself and not show you the way to freedom and peace. He is not a God like that. He is a loving Father but yet His ways are perfect. The answer is in His name.
But this dark place can cause you to lose hope and most do at this point. When you let the disappointment take over you actually get to where you cannot hear the word of the Lord that He sends to you. You shut God out. No promises work for you at this point. You get cold in your heart and nothing anyone says gets in. You are now bitter. You don’t trust God and you don’t trust his servants.
The disappointment has become woven into your character. You feel nothing. You now need supernatural intervention.
EXODUS 6:5-11
So now what does Moses do. He feels this way with God because of the people and his obedience. In Exodus 6:5-11 God promises thru covenant to Moses that he will deliver the people. But, not because of their believing and trusting in Him, but only because of covenant. We must remember the children of Israel NEVER believed God. No matter what He did for them, fought for them, they just never got Egypt out of them and their unbelief. Deuteronomy 1:32 clearly states that despite what God did for the children of Israel they didn’t trust in Him.
Deuteronomy 1 is a great chapter that talks about how they didn’t believe God no matter what He did for them and because of that none of them would enter the promised land except Caleb and Joshua and the little children. Deuteronomy 2 says they wandered for 38 more years for a total of 40 years because of their unbelief and God’s hand was against them .But because they didn’t trust, God was angered at then and swore none of these men of their evil generation (Deuteronomy 1:34) would not see that good land which God promised them. Wow!
Deuteronomy 9:6-7 says that from the day they left Egypt they were stiff-necked and unbelieving. But, God delivered them because of His word to them and covenant He made. But the question you should ask, is why? Why could they not believe?
After seeing all that God did for them… parted the Red Sea, manna from heaven, fought battles for them, why couldn’t they believe? Why is it hard for us sometimes to believe in our lives? This is the point I really want you to get.
They could not believe because of the anguish of their spirit. They were not capable of faith. The miracle at the Red Sea and the 10 times God tested them did not help. Because anguish was the ruling spirit of their hard hearts they would not believe what God did for them. Even though they were God’s people God brought a judgement on them for 40 years to wander in the wilderness. They didn’t trust in His name because of their disappointment and this is what will happen to us if we stay disappointed too.
RUN TO GOD
We must run to God when we are disappointed. We must trust God. We must not let disappointment set in our hearts when things don’t go our way. We must trust His plan. Your unbelief is what will keep you in despair. It is the only thing that holds you there.
Jesus had everything coming against Him just as we do. He suffered lies, rejection, forgotten by those that were supposed to love him, people denied him, those He came to die for killed Him. Yet Jesus didn’t despair or get into unbelief.
Exodus 34:5-7, says that God came down and stood next to Moses and proclaimed His name as Lord to him. He told Moses just who He was and that is powerful. He is compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. That is a wonderful proclamation for you and me. He gave us a name we can trust.
Every name of God is His character and He abides in us. We are His temple. We don’t have to be in anguish over situations and problems in our lives. We don’t have to settle into unbelief. God is able to do exceedingly abundantly more than we can ask, think, or imagine according to the power working in us. God is not far away. He abides with us and it is not hard to talk to someone that lives in you.
MIGHTY GOD, STRONG ARM
Gods name is El – strong arm, mighty, power, strength. You can’t say that anything you are going thru is too much for our God. No battle is too strong for him. No lust is too powerful and strong for you to overcome. No sin is overbearing that can’t be defeated. It’s not too late for you. You have not gone too far in your sin that you can’t get back to God. You are not worthless and without hope.
Isaiah said to stay or rest upon His name. The name that He provides is for every disappointment. The children of Israel didn’t do that. They failed to trust in that name so despair and unbelief set in their hearts and costs them the promises of God.
So friend, come out of your disappointment. Don’t turn your back on God and His promises. Commit your life to total dependence on Him and His name. You must show God whether you live or die you will trust Him.
The evidence of this type of faith is rest. Rest in His character and name. If your soul is not at rest you are not believing God. Turn your whole heart to Him and His word and do not let doubt in His presence. God’s grace has everything you need.
Let God be Lord to you and let that be…..everything.
