Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Tanya Wilmoth. Put five people in a room and spend a couple of hours

with them and I'm pretty sure you'll have five different stories of people who are working

through some kind of disappointment. Marriage, career, kids, relationships, jobs, friendship, money. I think Dane

Ortland had the nail on the head in his book deeper when he said,

disappointment is an ocean, not an island.

I didn't like reading that line though.

I prefer to think of disappointment as a surprising and untidy house guest who comes for a few days

and then hopefully leaves for a long time before making its way back again.

But really any escape we have from the constant disappointment that the world is not as it should

be is the grace and mercy of God. But we prefer to think of disappointment as an island,

which probably explains why we get so ridiculously impatient with God's timing in our life.

Abraham got impatient, and he took having a child into his own hands with his servant Hagar instead of his wife. Moses got impatient, and he tapped the rock twice to get water for the people to drink and

missed out on entering the promised land. The disciples got impatient and when the storm shook their

boat they said teacher do you not care that we are perishing?

And the Israelites got impatient a lot.

You know if you've been listening for the last few weeks.

But these stories hold up a mere to let us reflect on how you and I relate to God in difficult

circumstances. We start well and by the grace of God we end well but man do we

absolutely lose it in the middle sometimes. And God knows this and lest we take ourselves too

seriously he gives us a talking donkey and a much bigger perspective than we could

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