By Oscar Choza
We are all destined to face disappointments in life. They are no respector of persons. They come into the homes of the humble and of those who sit in the seats of the scornful. This realisation that they are due to visit us should help prepare us to meet them. It is the storm for which the captain is unprepared that damages the sailing vessel.
Disappointments come to us because:
1.We are Ambitious; The more ambitious we are the more disappointments we encounter. The ship in dry dock faces no storm. It is the sea-faring vessel that faces it. The idolent and lazy, the unromantic and unadventurous never have to face failure that those of an ambitious spirit must meet. The ambitious person multiplies his possibilities of disappointment according to his ambitions, but his reward makes him laugh at the dark hours through which he passed
2. We are selfish: There is but one cure for disappointments due to selfishness, that remove self. Make your purpose so altruistic that you are more concerned of others than your own.
3.Others will not Respond: Others will not always respond, sometimes never, the way we wish they would. Those whom we serve with most serious consideration may “turn again and rend you”, “he did not even thank me;” is the reason or excuse offered for a morbid spirit adopted toward one whom you befriended. Jesus healed ten lepers, who were victims of a loathsome disease that separated them from their families and association with society. Only one returned to express his appreciation to jesus. Still jesus went on healing all that were possessed with divers diseases. If you befriend others you must learn not to expect much in the way of returns. When you do receive expressions of gratitude, let this be a surprise to you. Therefore to eliminate many disappointments in life eliminate the selfish motive.
4. Many things are beyond our control: Some of these disappointments that come from sources beyond our control are exceedingly personal. They take joy out of living. They leave aching voids that the world can never fill. Sometimes our diasppointments are his appointments. Just do something else.
Our attitude towards disappointments
1. Give up in Despair: The little trees bend in the breeze and those of shallow root are torn loose by the storm, but the giant oak waves at the passing wind. You can be a sapling or an oak.
2. Adjust themselves to condtions: we should adjust ourselves to existing conditions and go on. While we dream of far distant shores we should serve where we find life has placed us. Put your all into today, and let not tomorrow’s dreams restrain your hands from action now.
3. Face disappointments and Go on: life will not wait for us. It will leave us untill we journey on with it. The fact that we have disappointments to face should quicken our pace to gain what we have lost. Take a fresh grip on yourself and go on
Little did I knew that this was posted. Thanks Zambian eye.
Oscar Choza,
Sometimes you must go back to God’s word and ask for deliverance of the demon of ‘DISAPPOINTMENT’
Many of these things we experience are demonic, and the only way to overcome them is by deliverance. One does not need to nurse a disappointment at all and live with it. Disappointment is demonic and can kill. Get a deliverance from any man of God.
Thanks