Stirred By The Scriptures

I found myself today thinking about two very different ideas - disappointment and the Gospel. The more I thought about it they actually fit together. Everyone of us knows what it feels like to be disappointed. We bring expectations into a situation or relationship only to have reality fall below our hopes and the result is disappointment. String enough disappointments together and you end up with the loss of hope, the sense of - what’s the use. It is at that moment I believe the Gospel provides hope. The message of the Gospel is all about redemption and restoration. God reached down to us in our absolute hopelessness and provided redemption. As our lives embody the truth of the Gospel it means that we can overcome disappointment, particularly with others, with the hope of redemption. If the Gospel is true it should make a difference in our everyday lives.