What do you do when life doesn't turn out the way you expected?
Maybe you prayed for something that never happened. A relationship didn't work out. A door you thought God was opening suddenly closed. You did everything you thought you were supposed to do, and somehow, everything still fell apart.
Disappointment is something all of us experience.
Sometimes it's sudden and painful. Other times, it's more like a dull ache that quietly follows us around as we wonder, God, why did You allow this to happen?
Those questions aren't new.
In our new eight-week series, Dealing with Disappointment, we're walking through one of the Bible's lesser-known books: Habakkuk.
Habakkuk lived during an incredibly uncertain time. The world around him was changing, his nation was struggling, violence and wickedness surrounded him, and circumstances weren't unfolding the way he believed they should.
So Habakkuk did something remarkable. He brought his questions directly to God.
Why are You allowing this? Why aren't You doing something? Why would You choose to work this way?
Instead of giving Habakkuk a simple explanation for everything happening around him, God invited him into something deeper: faith.
“The righteous one will live by his faith.” — Habakkuk 2:4
Over the next eight weeks, we'll discover that Habakkuk isn't a book about eliminating disappointment from our lives. Instead, it gives us a blueprint for learning how to live faithfully through it.
We'll learn what it looks like to trust God when we don't understand His methods, bring our questions honestly before Him, endure seasons we never expected, and continue following Him when we can't see where the story is going.
You don't have to understand everything God is doing to continue trusting the One who does.
Join us at Journey Church every Sunday at 10:00 AM as we walk together through the book of Habakkuk and discover how faith can carry us through disappointment.