So many of the disappointments that I have suffered in life are ones where no human reconciliation of the letdown is applicable. You are probably familiar with these sorts of disappointments. They are the ones where a death of a loved one comes from out of nowhere. What about major injuries suffered, diseases, unemployment, unforeseen expenses, events once greatly hoped for falling through? Life seems to hand out more than our fair share of disappointments. Should we allow these disappointments to birth a belief in us that Jesus doesn’t want positive things to work out for us? No, according to John 10:10, Jesus came to give us a full life. Hoping for great things to happen in your life, is not wrong. Psalms 37:34 says, “Put your hope in the Lord. Travel steadily along his path.” These scriptures are to serve as a strengthening to our weary souls. We do get beaten down at points by hoping for something, only to have it not work out. So how do we reason out why things once hoped for are dashed? Proverbs 3:5 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding”. There are going to be disappointments that will not yield understanding in this life time. Why? Because we, as humans, can’t make sense of something that is serving a greater purpose. In these situations, we will have to lean greatly on trusting Jesus. Trusting when there is no sense to be made of a disappointment, is one of the greater stretches of a believer’s life. Pastor Daniella