“Disappointments can destroy you or develop you—the choice is yours.”
Not one of us is exempt from disappointments in life. Even as believers. The real issue is how we allow those disappointments to impact our lives. We must decide whether we will allow those disappointments to destroy us—or allow them to develop us.
God is amazing in His ability to take the disappointments of life and use them to grow us and develop more of His character in us. Every believer will need to face various disappointments through the course of life, and God desires to utilize those times as opportunities fro our growth. This is not to say that He creates disappointing circumstances in our lives, but rather that He wants to take advantage of those occasions when they occur.
How we respond to disappointments (and ultimately behave) is an effective measure of our maturity level. Disappointments are never pleasant experiences, but they can be very advantageous in the process of spiritual growth that God desires to develop in each one of us.
I’m sure most of us can recall times of significant disappointment that God somehow used to create good as a result (Romans 8:28), and that is the miraculous ability that God possesses in being able to bring the best out of the worst. He does it all the time.
God doesn’t delight in our disappointments. He does, however, delight in the opportunities for growth that those times provide. So trust Him even in the midst of your greatest disappointments. The choice is yours to make.
