Few things are more crushing than personal disappointment.

When our hopes and dreams are dashed, it throws us into a quandary, wondering why in the world

we've been knocked back.

It feels so unfair.

Well, today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall continues his series called Hope Again.

In this portion of our study, we're reminded that our suffering never goes unnoticed by

God.

And that's important.

Let to our own inclinations we can easily slip into a victim mentality.

We'll begin by reading from 1 Peter 3 together.

Chuck titled his message Hope Beyond Bitterness.

There is something within each one of us that longs for life to be fair, isn't there?

For the good guys to win, to receive their rewards, and at the same time for the bad guys

to be soundly defeated, we all want that.

We love it when the stories work out like that, and well, everybody lives happily ever

after.

However, we don't live in a dream world where magic and superpowers overwhelm the forces

of evil and meet out perfect justice, Dewey.

Real life doesn't always turn out the way it should, least of all the way we want it to.

Our response to unfairness, as in all other issues, will be based on the particular vantage

point from which we look at life, our own personal perspective.

Basically, we have two viewpoints to choose from, the human viewpoint, and you guessed it,

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