Friday, December 14, 2007

Dissapointment

Dissapointment
The Lord has done a Good Work here and has really be dealing with me in the area of disappointment. I know you have been walking this journey with me all along so I wanted to share with you what the Lord shared with me.

On Tuesday night Joshua started acting sick again, and then Thursday night at 1am we received a phone call from the hospital about Joshua having blood in his stool and etc.. Immediately I was upset, wondering Why God? I felt like I was let down by the Father and my prayers weren't being answered, maybe because I was praying wrong or maybe people had stopped praying so hard because we thought Joshua was doing so well??... Honestly, I knew my thoughts were wrong and I was being tormented by disappointment- I knew that, and yet still didn't understand why I was being disappointed when I KNEW without a shadow of doubt that the Lord has His Hand on Joshua and He is Healing him and has a Purpose for Everything He is doing~! Well, I feel like I got my answer as to why I was disappointed and why He was allowing me to go through this, and maybe He is allowing all of those who care for Joshua to go through it for this very reason- this is what God showed me and I hope this ministers to you as it has to me! I love you All!!!

"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. - Proverbs 13:12"Life is filled with disappointments. Many of God's greatest servants experienced deep disappointment in their journeys of faithfulness to God. Joseph, after spending years as a slave and in jail for crimes that he did not commit, revealed deep disappointment when he was forgotten another two years in prison. John the Baptist, when awaiting execution, doubted whether Jesus was, in fact, the Christ because he was sitting there awaiting his death. Elijah, losing all hope and despondent to the point of death, asked God to take his life in the desert; and Peter, who left his fishing business and invested three years of his life only to watch his Savior crucified, wondered whether the purpose of those three years could be justified.When life doesn't add up, it leaves the heart sick. When we have done all we know to do and the formula has not worked, it leaves us questioning. These are times that try the very souls of men. There is no human sense to be made of it. We are left with a choice: to cling or not to cling. There are times when holding on to our Master's robe is all that we can do. It is all that He wants us to do.There is only one answer to life's disappointments. Like the psalmist, we must
"Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from Him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I will not be shaken" (Ps. 62:5-6).

Take Refuge in the Father and He will carry you!!!

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