Disillusionment – A feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.
“But Jesus would not entrust Himself to them, for He knew all people” John 2:24
One of the hardest lessons I have ever had to learn is not to be disillusioned with people who disappoint me. And as I read of the gospels of Jesus, I find that He had the same disappointments, particularly in the days before His death on the cross.
On the night Jesus was betrayed, we read that He was deeply distressed and troubled and asked Peter, James and John to keep watch …
Policemen in a certain town were called to a house where people were found to be stealing possessions from that house. Surprisingly, the policemen stayed on the footpath outside of the house and began to sing about the authority that had been given to them to arrest lawbreakers. As they declared their authority to one another, the robbers completed the task at hand of robbing the house of all its possessions and departed the scene.