2 Timothy4:9-10
Do your best to come to me quickly, for Dimas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica.
A Friend who apparently had unfairly laid off from Christian ministry where she worked wrote, "I know God is sovereign and sees it all, but that doesn't mean you don't feel the pain of loss."
I have no doubt the friend who wrote will eventually see beyond the human failure and the lack of compassion of her employer who acted more like a shrewd businessman. Yet when you are disappointed by individual whom you have respected and looked up to, you are confused and angry at the same time.
But the most important issue is not the person's failure, it is how you handle the disappointment. What do you do? Draw back into your cave of disappointment? Lash out at the apparent failure? Or do you say, "perhaps I've expected too much from [whoever treated you harshly]"? You can also count your blessings, thanking God that He knows your heart and understands.
And are you ready for this? Eventually you move on, forget about the failure, forgive the person who wrong you and refuse to catalog the grievances you have. Forgiveness is all part of the formula that is necessary to move the beyond the disappointment of human failure. While it is not easy, it's the ultimate solution
When God allows a door to close, don't try to pry it open. Realize that a Sovereign God will use the human failure of others to help accomplish what He wants to do in your life. He has something better in storefront you. Trust Him and wait for Him to put you where He wants you. Meanwhile, find refuge in the Lord He'll never disappoint you.
Do your best to come to me quickly, for Dimas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica.
A Friend who apparently had unfairly laid off from Christian ministry where she worked wrote, "I know God is sovereign and sees it all, but that doesn't mean you don't feel the pain of loss."
I have no doubt the friend who wrote will eventually see beyond the human failure and the lack of compassion of her employer who acted more like a shrewd businessman. Yet when you are disappointed by individual whom you have respected and looked up to, you are confused and angry at the same time.
But the most important issue is not the person's failure, it is how you handle the disappointment. What do you do? Draw back into your cave of disappointment? Lash out at the apparent failure? Or do you say, "perhaps I've expected too much from [whoever treated you harshly]"? You can also count your blessings, thanking God that He knows your heart and understands.
And are you ready for this? Eventually you move on, forget about the failure, forgive the person who wrong you and refuse to catalog the grievances you have. Forgiveness is all part of the formula that is necessary to move the beyond the disappointment of human failure. While it is not easy, it's the ultimate solution
When God allows a door to close, don't try to pry it open. Realize that a Sovereign God will use the human failure of others to help accomplish what He wants to do in your life. He has something better in storefront you. Trust Him and wait for Him to put you where He wants you. Meanwhile, find refuge in the Lord He'll never disappoint you.
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