“Peace with Disappointment”

by TerryLema

I read a phrase in a book Saturday morning … “peace with disappointment.” That is what happens when people say, “Don’t get my hopes up!”

How many times has the church felt the promise of revival. How many times have we sought the presence of God in our services, but after a few small drops, we walk back into the desert again. “Don’t get my hopes up,” we say, “revival is for somewhere else, someone else, some other time.”

We make peace with our disappointments. Our expectation shrivels, and we go back to enduring “normal” again. You know “normal.” It’s when nothing ever happens in a service except what we planned to happen. We sing, pray a little, listen to a sermon, then get home in time for lunch.

Too often that has been my experience in church, sometimes even when I was behind the pulpit! There is something about giving up control [even to God] that is downright scary. But it’s time, beloved. We need more of the Presence of the LORD if we are to thrive in these turbulent times. We need to let go and let the Spirit of God have His way.

“The glory of the LORD looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain. Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.” [Ex 24:17-18 NIV]

Father, send Your Fire! We welcome Your Presence among us! Amen

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