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The Third Eye Perspective:
By Carlos C. Brown
Thought For Today – “Disappointment Is The Child of Expectation”
Good Morning again peeps, Happy Tuesday. By a show of virtual hands, how many of you reading this right now are dealing with sometype of frustration or “Disappointment?” Maybe you are dealing with a job that you are frustrated at? Maybe you are dealing with a friend or even a family member who has disappointed you? Maybe your child or children are frustrating you to no end? I’m sure there are a ton of college students who might be frustrated or disappointed in their classes or most recent grades received after the semester just ended? Maybe you are frustrated or disappointed in your marriage, or your spouse or significant other? I would be willing to bet that evenmore people are frustrated or disappointed in their relationship with God, am I right? Whatever it is that is the source of your frustration or “Disappointment” right now, you need to understand that it is not happening by accident nor coincidence. It is happening as a result of something that we caused ourselves. So with that train of thought, of line of thinking, it was placed on my heart this morning to talk about, “Disappointment Is The Child of Expectation.” And AMEN goes right here! Now when you think about that word “Disappointment,” that is a very complicated word is it? I mean, no one likes to be disappointed in any way form or fashion, but it is a part of everyday life. Things are not always going to go your way nomatter how much you work or try make that happen. You can plan, scheme, even try to manipulate a particular situation, but if it is not in the cards for things to go as you planned them, it just isn’t going to happen nomatter how much effort you try to put into them. Now me, I am a simple creature. Maybe I should say that I am a “matter of fact” kind of person. I don’t like having to guess how something is going to go or turn out, I am a just “shoot it to me straight” type of guy. There is no need to sugar-coat anything with me out of fear that you are going to hurt my feelings, or tick me off enough to make me lash out. I like to think that I am old-school in that if you keep it real with me, I’ll keep it real with you. If you try to approach me any other way, and it is going to cause problems because I am just not wired to have to solve riddles, read minds, or anything like that. I am that way for good reason, because too many times I have been “Disappointed” in the outcome when I did attempt to approach a situation that way. Let me dig a little deeper into this whole “Expectation” word in an attempt to tie it to my subject line above.
If we were to look in the dictionary for a definition of the word, “expectation,” we would find the following – “A strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future; a belief that someone will or should achieve something.” Now, if you define the word “Disappointment,” you would find the following – “Sadness or displeasure caused by the nonfulfillment of one’s hopes or expectations; A person, event, or thing that causes disappointment.” One last word I would like to define for you, “Child” – “A young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority; an immature or irresponsible person.” Now if we were to tie all three of those definitions together in regards to my subject heading for today, you would get something along the lines of – “A strong non-fulfilled hope or belief that results in sadness or displeasure in a person, event, or thing as a result of an immature or irresponsible person.” Now watch this, the immature or irresponsible person is not who you think it is. The description of “immature” or “irresponsible” is NOT the person whom the hope and Faith if you will, was put into, it is the person actually who placed that expectation on the person that resulted in the “Disappointment.” I can see some of you looking at me a little cross-eyed so let me try and clear this up a little more. I can’t get mad at you for a “Disappointment” that resulted in an “Expectation” that I placed on you that you may or may not have been capable of fulfilling. The disappointment was caused by ME for putting that expectation on you, not knowing if you were capable of accomplishing that thing or event or not. How many of you by a show of virtual hands, experience sometype of disappointment on a daily basis in your everyday life because people don’t act or respond to how you expected them to? You have to ask yourself the question, “is it really their fault for not meeting your expectations? Or is it your fault for placing an unrealistic expectation on them that resulted in the Disappointment”? Not very many people will admit that the thing that caused their disappointment was triggered by their own actions, not the actions of the other person. I know myself if I am being honest here, I tend to place expectations on people to be simple minded in a sense like I am, and that is not always the case. And it frustrates and “disappoints” the fire out of me when that does not happen. I guess you can say that I set myself up for frequent “disappointing” events or situations by having that mentality. I definitely need to work on that trait because it has caused me many sleepless nights that’s for sure.
The Biblical days before and during the time of Jesus Christ’s time on Earth are full of events, occurrences, happenings, etc… where disappointments happened as a result of what might, notice I said MIGHT be “unrealistic expectations” placed on people who were not capable of fulfilling the tasks the failed to fulfill, and I’ll name a few briefly: When Satan was still an Angel in Heaven known as Lucifer and God’s most trusted right hand being. Is it safe to assume that giving one Angel that much power and prestige and expecting him not to let it go to his head was an unrealistic occurrence on God’s part? We could debate that for ions couldn’t we? The next example, would be Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in regards to eating the forbidden fruit. Is it also safe to assume that the temptation of having that tree right dab smack in the middle of the garden was just too much of a temptation for Eve after learning what it could yield for her if she ate of it? We could also argue that one too for ions couldn’t we? How about the Prodigal’s son? The disappointment that resulted in him blowing through all of his inheritance after getting it while his father was still alive has to be a product of epic Disappointment for his father right? Surely his father knew he wasn’t mature enough to handle that much wealth at such a young age out in the world alone without anyone he could trust to guide him? The next example that comes to my mind would be how God’s chosen people the Israelites not only felt the need to have a king when God never intended for them to because HE was going to govern and rule over them Himself had to be a huge “disappointment” to God on the one hand, but kinda sorta His fault at the same time with them not being perfect right? And then again when God delivered the Israelites from Pharaoh’s enslavement after 400 years, only for them to turn away from Him yet again once they reached the border of Canaan (aka their Promised Land), and because of the size of the inhabitants that occupied it, felt God had led them out there to perish? Again, would it not seem that God would have to shoulder some of, if not all of the blame for how the Israelites reacted? Afterall, He DID give them/us the right to choose if we wanted to serve Him or not right? Did that not leave the door of “Disappointment” as a result of expectations not met, WIDE open? The moral of this devotional today, is nomatter how much “Expectation” you put on a person, if that person is not capable of fulfilling that “Expectation” you find yourself “Disappointed” over and over and over. At the end of the day, there isn’t but one person in this life who will NEVER “Disappoint” you, NEVER “Forsake” you, and Who will NEVER “Leave” you even if everyone else does……..Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Can I leave you with a question to ponder today if I may?
“How many of YOUR “Disappointments” are a direct result of unrealistic Expectations on your part?”
Can I Get An AMEN?
“Today, choose to “Ride or Die” with Jesus Christ! Afterall, isn’t that EXACTLY what HE did for US on the Cross?”
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