the people test is another test that GOD uses. GOD often uses people in your life to test and stretch and develop your faith. this test is "how will i handle disappointment?"
life is often disappointing. things don’t turn out the way we planned them. careers don’t turn out the way you plan them. marriages don’t turn out the way you plan them. plans don’t turn out the way you plan them! the fact is life is disappointing a lot of the time. but the most disappointing thing in life is people. why do we get disappointed by people in life?
you get disappointed by people when you expect them to meet a need in your life that only GOD HIMself can meet. when you turn to a boyfriend or a girlfriend or a father or a mother or a husband or a wife or a friend and you expect them to meet all your needs, you’re setting yourself up for massive, massive disappointment.
GOD never intended that for anybody! nobody could possibly meet all your needs. and when they let you down, you think, “what’s wrong with you?” the problem is you. you put an expectation on them that they couldn’t possibly fulfill.
this is a test! so many of you have thought in the past, “if only i could get married, then i would be fulfilled and satisfied…. if only my wife/my husband would change, then all my problems would be solved…. if only my children were different – like their children next door – then i would be so contented…. if i had just had different parents, life would have been a whole lot grander.”
your problem is not the people in your life. your problem is your response to the people in your life.
people are not the problem and they’re not the answer to the problem either. the answer to your insecurity is not another person. the answer to your inferiority is not another person. the answer to your worries and your fears is not another person. the answer to your depression and despair and discouragement is not another person. the answer to your sense of failure is not another person. and the answer to your meaninglessness in life, your lack of purpose and your boredom with life, your deep dissatisfaction is not another person.
the answer is GOD.
when you expect other people to be your savior, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment.
just a thought from the front porch…
1 comment:
Bill you're right people will only disappoint us. That is one thing we CAN depend on is for weak and erring humans to fail.
But God will not, cannot fail us he always comes through with the answer we need.
I love Him with all my heart am glad that he has the answer to every need and he is always right on time!
Not perfect but can look to him who is perfect.
Barbara Diaz
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