Today we are going to take a posture of peace by disempowering disappointment.
Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in everything.
Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.
In Psalm 37 verses 1 through 4 it says,
This is such good news guys, this is such good news especially for those of us who have found ourselves stuck in disappointment.
In last week's episode, episode 171, you know I talked about pointing our imaginations in the
right direction, pointing our imaginations towards the goodness of God. Because where our minds go,
we eventually go. You know I have been so disappointed before that eventually it became
my lifestyle. Disappointment became my lens for how I viewed the world around me, how I viewed myself,
even how I viewed God. I lived with this exhausting responsibility of trying to make
the gap between my expectations and reality as small as possible. So what happened was I just
ended up living with really low expectations in an effort to protect myself from more disappointment.
I expected rejection so I avoided asking for help. I hated asking for help. I expected things
not to work out so I would enter into situations you know pointing out all that could go wrong
ahead of time just to make sure that I wouldn't be disappointed if it did go wrong. I expected
to be let down so I just didn't depend on other people. And here's what's so sad about that
lifestyle. It wasn't obvious to me that I was living that way. In my mind and heart it was just
the way that I was. Like it was my personality. But in Christ you don't have to stay the way you are.
You get to become all he is so that as he is so are you in this world. And Jesus Christ is not
stuck in disappointment. You know the world's solution for dealing with disappointment is what
I did. Lower your expectations so that you don't continue to be disappointed. So you don't become
disempowered by disappointment. But the kingdom solution for disappointment is the opposite.
It's to raise your expectations to a place of total delight so that you disempower disappointment.
You see disappointment is not to be ignored or avoided. It's to be confronted with the truth of
God's word, his promises, his economy, his beauty, his character, his majesty. When we feed on his
faithfulness and give way to delighting in who he is with us, for us, in us, through us, his majesty
expands our hearts and minds to the point where disappointment no longer diminishes us. We diminish
it. So today I want to encourage you disempower disappointment by giving way to delight. And a great
place to start is with giving thanks. Become thankful for who he is. Get into the promises of
his word. Delight in what he said to you about you and then become delighted in who you are becoming
in him. Guys this disappointment is not your inheritance.
Delight is. So today go ahead and give yourself a way to delight.