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Frustration is having your plans, dreams and desires defeated or delayed. Frustration occurs when your present situation has failed to meet your expectations. In John 16:33,” These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: But be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” In frustrating times, our peace is in the one who has overcome the world. Today, look to Jesus and you can be of good cheer.
Looking to Jesus means looking at frustration through his perspective. There have many times in my life where I have felt frustration. Through my college years, the early years of marriage, the many years of pursuing multiple advance degrees and the years of ministering in various churches, I have seen some dreams fulfilled and some dreams thwarted. But by looking to Jesus I have learned that with every cloud in life, there truly is a silver lining. There is a blessing through the storm. There is a prize on the inside. There is a godly purpose behind every frustration.
The godly purpose behind the frustration may be to make us more patience, or more loving or more trusting. Maybe the frustration is designed to keep us away from something or someone that would have been harmful to us by keeping us from dangers seen and unseen. Or maybe it was designed for us to wait long enough to be perfectly aligned with God’s holy timing.
Often, the greatest frustration seems to occur just before a major breakthrough because God is teaching us to press trough our frustration. When you take a pencil and press it against a rubber glove, it stretches and stretches the glove to the point of breakthrough. In the same manner, God stretches and stretches us through frustration until we breakthrough and God propels us forward to a brand new place in our life.
The breakthrough maybe to a new place, a new calling, a new perspective or a new determination to serve God.
What is God’s purpose behind your frustration? Is God stretching you through frustration? Then get ready for a life altering breakthrough. God has a victory for you through the frustration.
Pastor Holston