Aching-Breaking Heart

Have you ever been disappointed?  We have all had disappointment.  It starts in childhood when we wanted something really bad for Christmas and didn't get it.  It continues in our school years when we study really hard only to get a lower grade than we were hoping for or expecting.  Then it carries over into adulthood.  We get a job, work our tails off only to be passed up for that raise or promotion.  It also spills over into our married life when our spouse does not meet our expetations.  And along come children who do something that disappoints us.

Disappointment is unmet expectations.  Children are taught about Santa Claus and think they are going to get everything they ask for/want for Christmas.  That's impossible...unmet expectations. 

We get married and have certain expectations of our spouse..."that's woman's work" or "that's his job".  There are many times I have disappointed my wife and there are times I expected her to do something and it doesn't happen.  We are long past the caveman/Tarzan days.  I would rather cook then do yard work.  My wife would rather be outside in the dirt then do housework.  I like to give friends a hard time when they do something nice for their wives telling them it gives us husbands a bad name.  But that is an expression of love to do for your spouse what they don't like to do.  We were created for each other.

We live in a world that's not fair.  How many times do you hear your children say that.  Or your spouse comes home and tells you they did not get the raise or promotion..."that's not fair".  Satan is the prince of this world and he doesn't play fair, therefore life isn't fair.

So the next time your heart has been broken here is a Scripture.  Write it down on a 3x5 notecard.  Tape it to yur computer monitor.  Slide it into the casing around your mirror.  Put it somewhere where you will see it often.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted

and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Psalm 34:18 (New International Version)



And to you who have had disappointments with your work; to those who are facing financial disappointments; or maybe disappointments with family relationships; here is another Scripture for you...

And we know that in all things God works for the good

of those who love Him,

who have been called according to His purpose.

If you are not His child; if you have not been born again through immersion into baptism; you should not/cannot expect God to work things for the good.  "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!  The reason the worl does not know us is that it did not know Him." (1 John 3:1 New International Version).

Let Him heal your heart.

With a healing heart,

Jeff