Many-a-times we find frustration just hanging out with us like a friend who would just not let go. Frustration is one of the emotions every person goes through and the one that really is not cool. One would do anything to get out of it. But the truth is that it’s not so easy to come out of it, especially when it involves JESUS in the scenario. Why I say this is because, God gives us many promises in our lives and many at times we don’t see all those promises come to pass. Often times it is that the fulfilment of these promises are the need of the hour in our lives. It is at these times when we get really frustrated about the whole move of God. As this continues we just tend to doubt and question the very existence of the creator Himself. It is very common and many-a-times we do not know how to come out of this. Sometimes we’re in the place of Abraham where God promises Issac in his life and all chances of Issac coming into the world was nearly around 0%. Still Abraham was able to go the process and see the fulfilment of his promises.let me guide you through how God thinks we must see the whole ’frustration’ scenario.
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:3-5.
If we look at this passage from Romans 5, we would see how Paul says that he rejoices in his suffering.we can compare the suffering to the frustration as it is a form of suffering we go through in our minds. Paul goes on to say that suffering(frustration) produces endurance and that character and that hope, but at the end of all this he finally says hope does not put us to shame because God’s love is in us. What does Paul mean by saying this. To know why he mentioned love we must know about love…
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13:7
Here we see Paul mentioning that love believes, hopes and endures all things.this means the very reason why Paul mentioned love in romans 5 is because love is what can get you through the suffering as it endures all things. Not just any LOVE but the Love of God that went to the extent of dying for us. The way out of the whole frustration problem is ‘THE LOVE OF GOD’. Instead of looking at the frustrating situation with eyes of hatred start looking with the eyes of hope and love in Jesus. When we start doing this we will go through the process that god is taking us not with unwillingness but with the attitude “I AM DOING THIS FOR GOD” that is filled with love and joy. All we need to ask God is to fill us with more of His love in our hearts that we will not show the same frustration to others around us. This will just be our way of saying that it does not matter what goes on around I am still going to show love and move with God and find my way out of this with THE KING OF KINGS by my side.