As you enter 2022, are you dragging disappointment with you? You know that the new year offers new opportunities, but yet you are dragging the disappointments of the past year with you.
The Psalmist asks a good question for us:
"Why are we cast down? Why are we in turmoil deep in our souls?"
Yes, there are disappointments in life. There are those times, when we fail to accomplish what we set out to do. There are times when people, who we thought we could count on, let us down. There are times when we let people down.
This past year, may have yielded much disappointment for you. But here is the key to rising above the sorrow, and despair of disappointment.
The Psalmist says: "Hope in God". You will not be able to go back and fix things, but with God's guidance from His Word, and His presence in your life, He will help you to get back on your feet, and accomplish His will for your life. He will help you to leave behind the disappointment, and set your heart on a hopeful path.
The Apostle Paul said: "Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead." (Philippians 3:13) All that pertained to Jesus Christ, and His will for Paul's life, is what he was pressing forward to have.
In staying in fellowship with our Lord, and striving to accomplish His will for our lives, we will be able to cut the ties with disappointment, and walk in the hope of God, now and forever. GP
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