We’ve all been there. Disappointment peaks its ugly head around the corner of our lives, at the worst times its seems. But how you handle that disappointment is the key. When disappointment creeps in, and you hear the whisper of the enemy in your ear, “See, you don’t really matter to God. Can you really trust him now?” How do you respond?

Are you a music lover? I can hear a song and be transported to another time…memories flooding over me. That song can make me smile or cry. We all have our moments. Sometimes I feel like I’m at the top of the world, where everything is going right and then WHAM…I find the wind knocked out of me and I’m laying in the gutter, wondering what just happened. This past week felt like that. Change can be hard and when it hits you in the face, it’s honestly easy to fall into the trap of our enemy. Is God really good? Does he even see me? Do I even matter?

Back to my music reference…As a kid, I loved a song from the Carpenters. It came on the radio last night and I was instantly a little girl singing her heart out. But this time the words had a different meaning…

I’m on the top of the world lookin’ down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I’ve found, ever since you’ve been around
Your love’s put me at the top of the world

Remember the song, I never promised you a rose garden? Well, God didn’t promise us a life of constant bliss without struggle and pain. That was His intension, but once Adam and Eve chose to disobey Him, sin entered the world and corrupted the beauty of God’s creation. Sin has corroded this world, covering it with decay and leaving it broken and weak. But in our decay and brokenness, God didn’t change. He is still eternally good, eternally loving, eternally wise and eternally trustworthy.

I recognized this the morning after my pity party and I prayed, asking for His forgiveness. I realized that if I am “preaching” His goodness and love, it was so wrong in that moment of disappointment to listen to the lies of the enemy. God has proven His love to me, to us, so many times. How could I even entertain the idea that He wasn’t still in control and that He didn’t really see me or love me? The lies of the enemy cannot change who God is, and I will not allow them to change how I see Him!

Satan is not all powerful and he is not all knowing. So because he cannot actually change who God is, he is determined to change how we see God. If he doesn’t possess the power to destroy God himself, he will instead try to destroy what God loves…us! In that moment, when you’ve been smacked in the face and you’re reeling from the sting of disappointment, discouragement, depression…Don’t let that moment steal what you know is truth! God loves you unmeasurably! Christ is on the throne, and He is in control! You and I can trust Him, trust His plan. We can let go and set aside our worry and in our own desperation, submit to Him, trusting that He has the very best intentions for our lives.

One more music reference. I have loved Jeremy Camp’s music since his first album. His testimony is so powerful. I was so happy to be able to see him in concert last month. He too has faced adversity, desperation, and the death of his young bride. But he hung on to the truth of God’s word and the truth of His love for us. Take a couple minutes to watch his video and let his message remind you, just how loved you are by God and how much he has instore for all of us who trust in His name.