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8/13

Lamentations 3:25

Overcoming disappointments

One of the most important keys to moving forward into the great future God has for you is learning how to overcome the disappointments in your life. Because disappointments can pose such formidable obstacles to letting go of the past, you need to be sure you have dealt with this area before taking the next step to living at your full potential.

 

Often, defeating disappointments and letting go of the past are the flip side of the same coin especially when you are disappointed in yourself. When you do something wrong, don’t hold on to it and beat yourself up about it. Admit it, seek forgiveness, and move on. Be quick to let go of your mistakes and failures, hurts, pains and sins. Don’t’ let your setbacks become your identity.

 

8/14

Deuteronomy 29: 29

Keep Trusting

All of us face disappointments from time to time. No matter how much faith you have or how good a person you are, sooner or later, something (or somebody) will shake your faith to its foundations. It may be something simple, such as not qualifying for a loan to buy that house you really wanted. Or it may be something more serious – a marriage relationship falling apart, the death of a loved one, or an incurable, debilitating illness. Whatever it is, that disappointment possesses the potential to derail you and wreck your faith.

 

Recognize in advance that disappointments will come. Be prepared to trust God when they do.

 

8/15

Deuteronomy 31:8

Hurts will Hurt

Disappointments almost always accompany setbacks. If you lose your job, most likely you are going to experience a strong sense of disappointment. If you go through a broken relationship, that’s going to hurt. If you lose a loved one, there’s a time of grieving, a time of sorrow. That is normal and to be expected.

 

When you suffer loss, nobody expects you to be an impenetrable rock or an inaccessible island in the sea. Not even God expects you to be so tough that you simply ignore the disappointments in life, shrugging them off as though you are impervious to pain. No, when we experience failure of loss, it’s natural to feel remorse of sorrow. That’s the way God made us. Just trust Him to be with you through it.