It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered

by Lysa TerKeurst

We say we trust God but behind the scenes we work our fingers to the bone and our emotions into a tangled fray trying to control our outcomes.

Sometimes to get your life back, you have to face the death of what you thought your life would look like.

If the enemy can isolate us, he can influence us.

And we will never appreciate or even desire the hope of our True Love if lesser loves don’t disappoint.

God loves me too much to answer my prayers at any other time than the right time and in any other way than the right way.

And that’s when it hit me: I expect a perfection in me and a perfection in others that not even God Himself expects.

And I know this isn’t irony; God had it well planned.

What if the worst parts of your life are actually gateways to the very best parts you’d never want to do without?

As Ravi Zacharias said, “Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.”

There’s someone else in the world who would drown in their own tears if not for seeing yours.