You Can Be Happy Despite Disappointment

Focus on the Solution

Jehovah God lovingly provided for the first human couple, yet they proved to be ungrateful and rebelled.  (Genesis, chapters 2 and 3)  Then their son Cain began to develop a bad attitude. Ignoring Jehovah's warning, Cain murdered his own brother.  (Genesis 4:1-8)  Can you imagine the disappointment that Jehovah felt? 

Why did that disappointment not rob God of his happiness?  Because he had purposed to fill the earth with perfect humans and he continued working  to accomplish that purpose.  (John 5:17)   To that end, he provided the ransom sacrifice and his Kingdom. (Matthew 6:9, 10; Romans 5:18, 19) Jehovah God focused, not on the problem, but on the solution.

God's Word encourages us to focus on positive things rather than on what might have been or what we should have done. It says:  "Whatever things are true, whatever things are of serious concern, whatever things are righteous, whatever things are chaste, whatever things are valuable, whatever things are well spoken of, whatever virtue there is ans whatever praiseworthy thing there is, continue considering these things." -Philippians 4:8.

Next time: You Can Be Happy Despite Disappointment - Proper View of Disappointment

From the Watchtower magazine