Stop a minute and tell me if your Christian shield has been quite strong, and that you have not experienced, not even for a second, any disappointment at all.
I want to be honest with you. There were times I had. Disappointment with self. With family. With others.
Disappointment puts on two faces: Unfulfilled desires and expectations unmet. As a result, you feel as if the world has caved in under you, and you find yourself floating and without support, and you’re unhappy. Disappointment is just that. It is “unhappiness caused by the failure of one’s hopes, desires, or expectations” (From Thesaurus, provided by Houghton, Mifflin & Company; see Answers.com).
And if that is not enough, disappointment too may result to discouragement. Some out-of-duty Christians who have been disappointed have also been discouraged. These two words— disappointment and discouragement— may differ in meaning, yet one of their similarities lies in the number of letters they have. They may be two peas in a pod.
One of the great men in history experienced discouragement that resulted from some disappointment. In 1841, he wrote: “I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall be better I cannot tell. I actually forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better.” On April 15, 1865, he died, a victim of an assassin’s bullet. His name’s Abraham Lincoln.
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