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Disappointment


Some days ago, I woke up around 1am and I saw a message on my phone. It seemed as if my brain was suspended for a few seconds as I couldn't think about anything. It was a question and I had no ready answer for it.

The message said 'Is God for real?' You know the kind of situation that makes you to ask that kind of a question. It comes after someone has done something you didn't expect or you were grossly disappointed by the person.

My residual knowledge of God wanted to defend Him, but I decided to wait a little to see if I can really defend God in this case.

Defending God is not something am not used to, but each time I have to defend Him, it's always like a fresh one. It seems that it is one of the job descriptions of a pastor.

At times, you wonder why God keep disappointing people. I mean, why can't He prevent it from happening? What was He doing? After all the prayers and fastings, what happened? Or like my friend asked, is God for real?

I have always known that God doesn't treat everyone equally. One of my pastors said that God does not share everything equally. He seems to treat some people quite harshly while some people just get by.

Careful study has made me see that those that God seem to treat harshly are the people He wants to shape into a particular picture and to make them fit into His picture, He takes them through a process.

This process must however, not be mixed up with the advances of the devil. Bible says we should resist him.

A lot of people may not agree that God takes His children through a process that makes them to be established in a particular dimension of Himself, but one thing we must know is that we cannot read the part of the bible that we like. We have to accept it all.

When I was in the university, a brother ministered one day and He said to us that "when Jesus wanted to feed the 5,000 men with 5 loafs of bread, He broke the bread". Multiplying the bread required the prerequisite of breaking.

You see, am already defending God. I am defending Him because I am being privileged to understand the ways of God and not just His acts. The knowledge of His ways will always make me to defend Him. Paul said if we are unfaithful, God would not deny Himself, He will remain faithful.

When we find ourselves at a junction where we have been disappointed by God, we should remember that He cannot deny Himself and trust in His plan. He truly has a plan and we should trust it.

'Every' Christian will find himself at this junction at a point in his life. Even Jesus wasn't exempted. It takes faith to walk with God and if you're currently at that junction, there is a Grace that sustains at times like this.

When David was walking through the valley of the shadow of death, God didn't run away or take him out of the valley. God stood by David and they walked through together. God is with you; don't despair.

After all that David went through, it is amazing that he could still write Psalm 37. He wrote the psalm when he was old. Psalm 37 is an account of David's defense of God. You should read it.

I always make a statement to myself. I would say "Even if my experience doesn't align well, I choose to believe His word". Choose to believe again!

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