Disappointment could be defined as an emotional letdown after high expectations. If you are expecting something good and it doesn’t happen, the temptation to enter into disappointment is there. The devil is just waiting to lightly push it over onto you. Don’t take it!

Most Christians are smart enough to fight off the major things. When depression tries to come on me, I know that’s bad and that it is not God. I kick that demon of depression in the teeth by not allowing it to come around me. I will not allow myself to get depressed.

But what about disappointment? A disappointment seems like such a little thing. I might get a little disappointed at something I expected someone to do, or over a report I get about some family or person in the church. Or, when I go out to start the car and find the battery dead, it’s just a little disappointing. Yet if all these little disappointments aren’t dealt with right on the spot, they add up.

If you let all the disappointments pile up, little by little, the next thing you know you will get discouraged. Little disappointments can lead to discouragement and discouragement can lead to a broken heart. 

Jesus came to heal the broken heart. He said, “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted.” When Jesus said this, He was reading from Isaiah 61. The word heal that Jesus used here can also mean restoration. When something is healed, it is restored to its previous condition. It is completely fixed and whole. In other words, Jesus came to fix, to mend, to complete the thing that has been broken. Jesus came to mend the broken heart completely.

You do not have to live with disappointments and discouragements or a broken heart. We must deal with all disappointments quickly or they will develop into discouragement and a broken heart. But the good news is this – Jesus can restore and fix your broken heart. He can make it “shalom” (peace, harmony, wholeness, completeness).

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