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Monday, September 8, 2008
Disappointment
What do you do when you are disappointed? Me? I tend to turn inward. I tend to get really quiet and question life and my place in the world. I tend to wallow in my sadness for a while, and then I wake up to God's faithfulness and perfect sovereignity. Right now, I am disappointed. I am at the point of quiet questioning. What is God trying to teach me? Have I missed his direction? Have I not done something that I should of done, or did I do something that I should not have done? Am I who He wants me to be? Will I ever be? I KNOW that my questioning and waiting will lead me to God and His still small voice. I KNOW that His timing is perfect; His ways are perfect; and He will complete the perfect work that He began in me. But... until I totally wake up to all of those truths... I sulk and wallow.
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3 comments:
I'm right there with you! In the exact same place with those same questions! I'll pray for you...you pray for me. I love you friend!
Hugs~
Torrie
JENNNY:
I TRIED TO SEND A AOMMENT AND IT WOULD NOT LET ME SO WILL TRY AGAIN.
THANKS FOR BEING SO TRANSPARENT...IT IS LIFE AND REALITY. I THINK WE HAVE ALL FELT AS YOU TALKED ABOUT...DISAPPOINTMENT IS HUGE...A REAL LIFE SAPPER TOO BUT COMES TO US ALL. AS A PASTORS WIFE, DEALING WITH PEOPLE, WE HAVE IT MOST EVERYDAY! MOST DO NOT UNDERSTAND TAHT. I HAD IT ALL DAY YESTERDAY BUT LEARNED A LONG TIME AGO TO JUST KEEP MY EYES ON JESUS!!!! EVERYONE ELSE WILL LET YOU DOWN!
WHEN YOU ARE FEELING SO BADLY, REMEMBER HE CALLED YOU AND IN YOUR PAIN AND TRANSPARENCY, HE AS WELL AS OTHERS SEE HIS REFLECTION IN YOU! WAHT MORE COULD WE ASK FOR? IS THAT NOT WHAT WE WORK FOR SO TAKE DISAPPOINTMENT WITH A LIGHTER HEART. I KNOW HE OFTEN EXPERIENCES DISAPPOINTMENT IN ME YET HE KEEPS GOING, LOVING AND CARING FOR ME!
I LOVE YOU JENNY JEN AND KNOW GOD IS USING YOU TREMENDOUSLY!!
KEEP YOUR BEAUTIFUL CHIN UP AND KNOW GOD IS DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU!! THERE IS A PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS GOD IS IN THE THICK DARKNESS...HE IS EVER NEAR US AND WILL WORK IN US WHEN WE NEED IT THE MOST..HE IS STILL GOD IN THE VALLEY!!!
BIG HUGS
SIS PAT
I hope this passage will bring everything into perspective.
1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
Psalm 139:1-18 (NIV)
I love you!
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