You’re going to be let down

October 12, 2004 by Melody Laila  
Filed under Columnists, Melody Laila

Let’s face up to one fact - sooner or later, even those whom we love best are going to let us down in some way or the other.

As Christians we have a God given responsibility to be different. We are after all, a chosen people, a people set apart, to show the goodness of Him Who has called us out of darkness into His wonderful light.

How then do we react when people whom we love, perhaps whom we’ve been counting on, let us down?

Recently I had the privilege of facing the evil one’s arrows from almost every area of my life. And unfortunately my reactions were less than Christian. I fretted, I fumed. I was upset that so many people, who should have ‘been there’ for me, weren’t.

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