Scripture explains that all people have fallen short of the glory of God. That no person has or will ever be without the need of God’s grace. And even as Christians, we are living day to day only by his grace because of our sin. The sin that was committed in the past would alone be enough to sentence us an eternity away from God. But even knowing this, Christians continue to sin every day.
On top of obliterating the Ten Commandments, Christians have also failed to live up to their own global beliefs of what a “good Christian” is. They feel like they don’t match up to what they should be doing or what other Christians are doing. Good works do indeed bring goodness, glory and joy, but absence of good works brings guilt, shame and the feeling of being below satisfaction. And many Christians, due to their sin and lack of good works, feel like they are indeed below satisfaction.
The abundance of our sin and our lack of good works in Christ has certainly led many Christians in a turmoil of disappointment in themselves. In fact, I would dare to say that there is not one Christian on earth that doesn’t think that they could do better, that they could do more, and that they wish they were a better Christian. It is a constant battle even for myself. Every day I aspire to pray more the next, read more scripture and do more with my life in terms for Christ. But after every day, I come to the familiar realization that I failed to do what I desired. I am very, very disappointed in myself.
And if I, a sinner, am disappointed in myself for the things that I do and don’t do, then you would think that The Lord’s disappointment is only magnified because he knows even the sins that I am unaware of, and the opportunities that I didn’t know I passed up. I believe that the majority of Christians believe that God is disappointed in them. But this is a belief that comes from the pit of Hell. Satan uses this lie to entangle Christians into guilt for the rest of their life because even if he can’t get them to join his evil forces, then at the very least he can make their life as a Christian miserable.
Galatians 2:20, "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.”
For starters, to say that God is disappointed in his children is to say that God got his hopes up on Christians and then we ruined it. It is to say that God didn’t know that we would fall short. God knew from the very beginning that Christians would fall short, he cannot be disappointed because he already knew we would fail to meet the standard of righteousness.
God’s opinion does not rest on any amount of sin or work that Christians do. God’s opinion rest solely on our faith in Christ. Our faith in Jesus is enough. This is because our faith in Christ is a window for him to live in us. Once this happens, it is no longer us who lives, but Christ living in us.
Has God ever been disappointed at Jesus?
No.
And so if God sees Jesus living in us, then God is not disappointed in us either.
If God was disappointed in Christians, then we are saying that Jesus living within us isn’t enough. The Corinthians 5:21 says that because Jesus lives in us, we are the righteousness of God.
We aren’t the frustration of God, the anger of God, the sadness of God, the evilness of God or the disappointment of God. As Christians, we are the righteousness of God.
God, in his nature, cannot be disappointed in you because if he was it would be saying that he is disappointed in himself. Jesus is God and Jesus lives in — God is within us. Whenever God looks at you, he is looking at a reflection of his perfect and pure self. How can this be? Because of our faith in Jesus Christ.
So tell me again, if even God is not disappointed in you…why are you disappointed?
