Don't Let Disapointment Get You

Disapointment is a large hole that will try to suck you into it and lead you to sin. I am reminded of the Sarlac pit in the Star Wars movie "Return of the Jedi". It was a large, gaping hole in the desert in which lived a creature call a Sarlac.

This creature had long tentacles which would reach out and grab any unknowing creature, pulling them down to its waiting, cavernous mouth to be eaten. Well, disapointment can be just like that. With it's tentacles of self pity, sadness and many other forms of selfish emotions, it can entangle your spirit and pull you towards it's cavernous mouth of sin.

Unlike what was portrayed in the movie, (Jabba the Hutt feeding his enemies to the Sarlac), the way a Sarlac obtained it's food was by feeding on any creature unaware that it was there. Any creature that didn't know better and travelled too close to the edge of it's pit would end up as a tasty morsel for the Sarlac.

As Christians, especially Christians who read and meditate in God's Word, we should really realize disapointment for what it is, an emotion, that if left unchecked, will get the best of us every time. Even though I encountered some disapointment today, I will not fall prey to it's wiley ways. Instead I will give it a wide berth as I pass it by and avoid the sin that it would try to bring me to.

Strength and honor for the Kingdom and the King!