Disappointment is a thief!

Luke 24:1-12

Disappointment is a thief!

I don't know how you would handle it but I tend to believe that I would be just like the disciples, disappointed about the events of the last few days. Everything had been going so well. They came into Jerusalem as almost rockstars, just a week earlier. Now they are hiding. They had given up everything to follow Jesus and now they have nothing. Their faith as still small.


Disappointment comes because someone or something has failed us. Jesus had predicted his death on numerous occasions. The disciples should have remembered. Jesus promised whoever has given up much to follow Him will be given more, they should have trusted. Jesus raised others from the dead, performed miracles that no one had ever done before yet they did not believe He could perform the impossible now.

Think about your life. Is there someone or something that has disappointed you? Any disappointment can find it's root back to a lack of trust in the Lord! Think about it, whatever you are going through God has the power to supply, strengthen, bless, deliver, or just plain get you through it! We waste so much time being disappointed.

Jesus had risen from the dead yet the disciples totally missed it and wallowed in disappointment for a while longer because the did not trust the Lord. He had risen from the dead, conquered their every fear, proved that He and the Father are one, and that every word He said was true! They missed it!

God has a great plan for your life. You may have read something in the Bible that is a promise for you or someone may have told you something they heard from the Lord for you, all good things, then something happens. Struggles, battles, hurt, rejection happens and it robs of God's promises for us.

Don't allow your promise to be stolen from you! Don't waste any time allowing your joy, love or peace taken away. Jeremiah 29:11 says this "the plans that I have for you, are for a hope and a future, plans for you good and not for your destruction!" If nothing else believe that promise and disappointment will never steal another minute of your life.