Have you ever been disappointed with God? Disappointment assumes that this is where the story ends, that everything significant that could happen has already happened and now this is the reality I have to live in. Disappointment stops reading in the middle of the story because it cannot see how what I once thought was true could somehow still be true in the middle of this dark night of the soul. But the word “yet” is a word of hope. Its an affirmation that even you cannot possibly see how this all ends. Its a word of hope that you don’t necessarily have to “feel”. But the more we say it, the more we acknowledge that the story isn’t over, that The pen is still in the author’s hands.

Like Joseph when we meet him in Genesis 37, your story is still being written. Even when disappointment has settled in and you can’t see a way forward. If you’ll look, you’ll see, the Lord is with you. Your story will be the story, not of your struggles alone, but of God’s faithfulness to fulfill all his promises.