Much of our frustration is the result of not embracing this statement, “Not my will but Yours be done.”
Frustration
Ruth Haley Barton
If we are able to stay with our frustrations long enough and not give up, we may begin to suspect that the things that most need to be known and solved and figured out in our life are not going to be discovered, solved or figured out at the thinking level anyway. The things we most need to know, solve and figure out will be heard at the listening level, that place within us where God’s Spirit witnesses with our spirit (Rom 8:16).
Chris Summerlin
As you observe is going on in your community and nation, it’s easy to become frustrated or even angry. Does our love for our fellow brothers and sisters (regardless of race, colour, sex, or creed) rise to the top and overtake our emotions? Love is a choice and I choose Love! 1 Corinthians 13. Is this love demonstrated through you to your community, city, state, nation, and world just as much (if not more!) and not just toward your church and personal relationships? [paraphrased]
Katherine Walden
If you’ve ever read more than a few Psalms, you’ll quickly learn It’s okay to have an occasional meltdown. But choose the proper venue to have it. Go to your prayer closet, in the loving presence of your Heavenly Father who will carry you through and give you the grace to move forward.
C. S. Lewis
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
Derek Prince
God brings us to the place of total dependence upon Himself to demonstrate that He is totally dependable… The more completely I depend on God, the more He surprises me by the results that follow — results that I could never have achieved as long as I depended on my own efforts.
Katherine Walden
Frustration with your performance, the people you serve or the process needed to complete the task set before you is never an acceptable excuse for disobedience to God’s call.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
The many contradictions in our lives – such as being home while feeling homeless, being busy while feeling bored, being popular while feeling lonely, being believers while feeling many doubts – can frustrate, irritate, and even discourage us. They make us feel that we are never fully present. Every door that opens for us makes us see how many more doors are closed. But there is another response. These same contradictions can bring us into touch with a deeper longing for the fulfillment of a desire that lives beneath all desires and that only God can satisfy. Contradictions, thus understood, create the friction that can help us move toward God.
Katherine Walden
Unforgiveness is like a scratch on an old record. The song never goes on to the end, it keeps the beautiful music yet to be released unheard and all that resounds are the same old chords again and again and again.