Don't Be Disappointed When You're Disappointed
Do not be discouraged when you are disappointed (John 21:4-5)
"Don't be disappointed when you're disappointed"
Sometimes in life, I meet someone who breaks my vision and disappoints me. At that time, you must deal calmly with the belief that “God works all things together for good.” Then the person who once disappointed you gets up and becomes a joy-giver.
Success in life depends on “how do you deal with people who disappoint you?” Treating a disappointing person with anger will lead to more disappointment, but if you warmly encourage and unfailingly love him, he will rise again and fulfill my expectations. Encouragement is more important than censure. The figure of Jesus in the text teaches that principle well.
"What you look at determines your life"
When Jesus came to the broken disciples at dawn after not catching a single fish all night, the disciples did not know that Jesus was coming. A deep heartache can cloud our faith and judgment, preventing us from knowing that the Lord is near. Therefore, when you are discouraged, there is the first thing to do with the last remaining strength and will. It is ‘looking to Jesus’.
If we meditate deeply on verse 4 of the text, Jesus did not come suddenly at dawn, but had already been looking at the disciples on the beach for a long time. In the same way, God is still looking at me. Even though I can't catch a single fish in my life and have a humble appearance, God never turns away from me and still looks at me lovingly. Likewise, I must look to God.
Life changes depending on how you look. If you keep looking at the good, you will have a good life, and if you keep looking at the bad, you will have a bad life. If you watch a love sharing program on TV, you learn about love, and if you watch a strange drama, you develop a strange desire and vanity.
What you look at and how you see determines your future, your personality, and your happiness. If you look at the future in a dark way, you become unhappy, but if you look at the future in a bright way, you become happy. Unhappy people look at the environment and complain that there is no ‘environmental change’, but happy people look at themselves and try to achieve ‘self-change’ first. When you feel happiness when you see something special, you become unhappy, but when you feel happiness when you see ordinary things, you become happy.
< I see the hand of love in the eyes of faith >
What you see changes your life. If you always think of Almighty God and always look up to Jesus who saved you, your life will change dramatically. Worship time is a time for me and the world to have nowhere to go and only look at the redeemed Lord. If you look at me, your life is just pathetic, but if you look at the Lord, you feel all your life with emotion and emotion.
Even in the human-to-human situation where we can be disappointed with each other because we know each other so well, the reason why there is grace, emotion, and gratitude in worship is because we look to the Lord, not people. Looking to the Lord will enrich your life. If you look at the Lord with a heart of love, you can feel the Lord's hand in the grass that is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, and you will find praise titles through every moment of your life.
One day, Thomas Carlyle, a British thinker, took up a pen to publicize the horrors of war and the importance of peace. After writing day and night, he completed the history of the French Revolution in 10 years and asked his friend and philosopher John Stewart to revise the manuscript before publication. After reading the manuscript, Stewart did his best to revise the manuscript, admiring the excellent content.
One day, Stewart was so tired that he went to bed with Carlyle's manuscripts laid out in front of his desk. The next morning, when the maid saw the manuscripts the maid had edited out on the desk, she thought they were garbage, collected them, put them in the fireplace, and burned them.
As a result, Carlyle stopped eating and drinking for four months and waited in despair to die. One day, four months later, I was looking out the window and saw that my neighbor was building a new house. The bricklayer draws a line and builds the bricks according to the line. After a while, I pushed the pile again and built it again.
Seeing it, Carlyle thought. “Even when I build a house, I make several modifications like that, but it was my fault for trying to change the history of the world at once!” He mustered up the courage to write the history of the French Revolution again from that day, and finally left an immortal masterpiece that cannot be compared with the first manuscript.
By faith, we can experience the Lord's hand in all things and in all circumstances, and we can hear the Lord's voice. In the eyes of faith you can see the touch of love. When you feel the touch of the Lord's love, your life changes dramatically.