Disillusionment?

My late and amazing friend George Verwer (founder of Operation Mobilization) regularly spoke about people in the wide church world and even in O.M. having to face becoming disillusioned. I've written on this before in my posts but today think it good to say a bit more.

Stop, breathe, in your relationship to God, your spouse, your friend/s, local church or other Christian gathering, workplace, social gathering people -has there NEVER been a moment or day or sometimes lingering sense of your being disillusioned? Really, be brutally honest on this point.

One definition of the term: a feeling of being disappointed and unhappy because of discovering the truth about something or someone that you liked or respected.

If, according to God's Word "ALL have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God", then all will at times present you with either or both truth as well as distaste as they aren't as you'd have them be -by your judgment. Of course your and my judgment isn't always perfect is it?

God Himself doesn't always "show up" and "march to our orders" does He?! Nor should He -and He IS perfect!

So let's fact the emotional as well as mental baggage we carry around inside ourselves when things -and people- don't always kiss up to our desires, don't fill up our sense of correctness, let us down, fail to do or be what -we- so desire. That's key to at least beginning to shovel our own disillusionment out the door rather than lugging it into and out of (with a LOT of "out of") relationships. Sometimes our own toxicity is worse than theirs.

Then again, you can simply swim in your feelings and harsh judgment -and even if you're correct, what does that have to do with loving God, neighbor, even enemy as Jesus commanded His followers?

Things to ponder as we journey? I think truly important.

And as always, thanks for stopping by! -Glenn