I don't know about you but I always find disappointment difficult to deal with, when I have planned and planned something and then it just doesn't work out as I had hoped I find myself getting frustrated and annoyed.
I have found the last two weeks as I have been preparing talks on Daniel 1 and 2 to be immensely helpful, encouraging and yet at the same time challenging. Encouraging because God knows about the disappointment I am experiencing before I experience it and more amazingly he is going to take it and use it to achieve his purposes. Helpful because I can get too bogged down in what I can see which means when things don't work out the only way I can see I am tempted to dwell on it and become down hearted and yet God knows and is already working even it in the disappointment. Challenging because if that is the case then my disappointment and frustration shows that yet again I have failed to grasp that God is Sovereign, that it hasn't taken him by surprise and that he works through these things.
Daniel calls me to get my perspective right on my plans and planning, it calls me to seek God and to continually relearn to trust him who alone is sovereign and whose kingdom is not shaken and will rule eternally.
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