Urban Reformation

We must understand finite disappointment in our earthly endeavors, but never lose hope in our infinite God; I have heard it said once that disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

Meeting expectations, that’s a big thing in our society today. We expect certain things from business people; we expect things from our spouse our children, and friends. Often we have expectations unstated.

As I’m growing older, mind you still in my early thirties, I notice that disappointment is something I struggle with from time to time. It’s something I do in breaking the second commandment, because “disappointment” is a form of idolatry.

We could use the word “disappointed,” another way, it’s sometimes good to substitute the word “disillusioned.”

This helps remind me that I have created an illusion in my own mind, about a spouse, or a friendship, an acquaintance, a leader, or an organization that simply isn’t based on a right or clear perspective. I have created for myself an ‘idol in my own mind’ and when my idol doesn’t perform the way I think it should I become, disappointed or disillusioned.

( God then allows me to feel the feeling that goes with my idolatry, of “disappointment.”)

Calling something an illusion suggests that my interpretation of reality is mistaken, or is at best unclear. So when things don’t go the way I expected or wanted them to go, it seems to help if I take the perspective that I’ve created a false image of reality in my mind (i.e. an idol), and I need to quickly adjust myself to a right perspective through Christ.

Therefore the best thing to do is to repent from idolatry in my own heart toward God, and realize that God is the keeper of perspective not I.

The sooner I repent the faster I get over this “feeling” of what I call “The Idol of Disappointment.”

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