I have been thinking about this recipe for frustration all day and I am not being sarcastic when I write it. The recipe for frustration is to take two cups of reasonable intelligence; combine it with a sense of protocol and propriety and people will frustrate you beyond belief because, all too often, they do not operate according to those three things. It seems that the more we learn, the more we set ourselves up for frustration because the moe we learn, the more errors we see and hear. The more we try to operate according to protocol and reason in a society that breaches those things can be very frustrating, especially when those thingsdo not produce desired outcomes that they are designed to do. In other words, when you talk sense, then, “sense”, ought to be the outcome. It is frustrating when it doesn’t.
I was frustrated beyond belief today and even though I believe that there are times when angry expressions are called for, this would not have been good and I was more focussed on my frustration and how to deal with it. I remembered a word that I had read in Scripture. The word was from James 4:7 which says:
“Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
I took that word to mean that I should resist the temptation to give in to my emotion to let them have it, so I did. I resisted. While still focussed on dealing with my frustration, which happens too often for me, I went home, I climbed the stairs to my prayer room and asked God to help me deal with my it. It was by remembering His Word that God told me to resist the devil and I did, but now it was time to deal with the frustration. The two answers that I received were not magic but they are helpful. One of them came in the form of Scripture. It’s the one that says,
“Trust in the Lord. Lean not to thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your path.”
It was the, “trust”, part that helped me with the frustration. Trusting God, somehow helps to relieve much of the frustration. Perhaps it does that because it is by trusting Him that Imtransfer much of the weight of it to the God who knows what to do with it. I am still frustrated, but it is being handled better.
The other answer came from the picture in this post. It is good practical but divine advice. It reminds me that I need to get away every now and then and just get self together. The picture was taken at a time when I got on the road, drove to a nice quiet place for a couple of days and chilled out.
I hope this helps you.
God bless.
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