How to See God’s Purpose in Your Disappointment

As my perspective changes, so does my disappointment. God’s purpose isn’t to wrap me in that bubble and keep me away from the harsh realities of the world, it’s to walk with me through them. His purpose is to refine my faith.  

“In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed” (I Peter 1:6,7).

Going back to my dad abandoning me and my first disappointment with God, I prayed for years for Him to restore my family. He never did. But He did restore me in ways I never imagined. 

As far understanding the purpose in my son’s second journey with cancer? That’s still a work in progress. But if I look at things just right, I catch tiny glimpses of the way God’s changed him and me for His purposes.