Disappointments & Appointments  

You ever felt like it was just one thing after another in your life? 

When it just feels like disappointment after disappointment? You kind of just lose that spark of hope that you once had? 

Yep. I can definitely relate to those feelings.

But I can also ask myself,

What if my disappointments are really just divine appointments disguised as not so comfortable realities. 

So you lost your job or maybe that relationship you put so much effort in failed, or your best friend betrayed you, or that college you wanted to get in did not accept you. 

Sometimes in those moments it can feel like the end of the world. You just go numb. 

Disappointment is a feeling of sadness when something falls short of your expectation

Appointment is an arrangement to meet someone at a particular time and place.

So, What if the disappointment in your life is really just an appointment with The One who wants to give you the desires of your heart. The One who wants to take control of your life and give you a hope for your future as promised. 

Did you ever read what comes after Jeremiah 29:11? Here it is :

“For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.’”

??Jeremiah? ?29:11-14? ?

But what if you can say you still have hope even after all you have been through? 

Now that is one heck of a divine appointment. 

Disappointment can be your opportunity for growth and it can make you stronger if you let it. God will bring you through it ever time, the only thing in exchange is to let go of our control and to cling to the trust and hope of God.