Frustration

Devotional 5/6/26 11:26a - Frustration

• • Prayer Requests
    • Nation of Israel
    • Michele healing
    • Jr's sister Monica's healing
    • Melinda Williams' family; her Mom passed 4/11/26
    • Terri's biopsy - Kidney cancer.
    • Kevin Potter in Michigan salvation per Deb
    • Our Nation
    • Each other
    • The persecuted
    • Jay & Michele
      • Nicole's operation
    • Lawrence medical issues - back
    • Texas Beth's new church search
    • Bill M and Glenda R
    • Bill in Hollister
  • My recent frustrations with medical and insurance
    • Its almost as if the system were designed to discourage it's use.
    • "Feel the surge".
  • Definitions
    • The act of preventing the accomplishment or fulfillment of something.
      • The essential elements leading to frustration:
        • Having a goal, desire, wish or need.
        • Having something (circumstances, events, or someone) prevent the attainment.
    • The feeling or state of being frustrated
    • Something that causes such a feeling or state.
      • Interruptions
      • Incompetance
        • Bad drivers
      • Opposition from your dogs
      • Traffic jams
      • Long lines
  • Each of the verses below hold either a warning, instruction, or promise. Each also has a context.
  • Proverbs 29:11 A [shortsighted] fool always loses his temper and displays his anger, But a wise man [uses self-control and] holds it back.
    • Holds what back?
      • Anger
    • Some people say that its dishonest to hide your feelings.
    • Some people say that its unhealthy not to express your feelings.
      • We'll find that the best place to vent your frustration is with a true, trusted friend.
      • I wonder who that true, trusted friend could be?
  • Psalms 37:7, 8 Be still before the Lord; wait patiently for Him and entrust yourself to Him; Do not fret (burn, be enflamed, agonize) because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes. 8 Cease from anger and abandon wrath; Do not fret; it leads only to evil.
    • For believers:
      • News media on both sides is fanning the flames of polarization.
        • Both sides say the exact same things about eachother
          • Both sides are afraid that the other side is winning.
        • Both sides say the other side is evil and wants to "destroy democracy".
      • There are indeed many things in our culture that need to be opposed.
    • This verse and the ones that follow show us how we can oppose evil, and do it God's way.
      • This verse just told us to trust God
      • This verse just told us to cease from anger and abandon wrath.
      • This verse did NOT tell us to not have emotions.
      • It did not tell us to avoid emotions
  • Psalms 62: 8 Trust [confidently] in Him at all times, O people; Pour out [spill out, shed] your heart before Him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
  • Isaiah 41:10 10 ‘Do not fear [anything], for I am with you; Do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, be assured I will help you; I will certainly take hold of you with My righteous right hand [a hand of justice, of power, of victory, of salvation].’
  • Lamentations 3:25-27 25 The Lord is good to those who wait [confidently] for Him, To those who seek Him [on the authority of God’s word]. 26 It is good that one waits quietly for the salvation of the Lord. 27 It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke [of godly discipline] in his youth.
    • waits quietly? = wait patiently of Ps. 37:7
    • Why should youth "bear the yolk"?
      • Scriptural algebra...
        • God's yolk = Jesus' yolk.
  • Ephesians 4:26 Be angry [at sin—at immorality, at injustice, at ungodly behavior], yet do not sin; do not let your anger [cause you shame, nor allow it to] last until the sun goes down.
    • 27 And do not give the devil an opportunity
    • Deal with anger/frustration sooner rather than later.
    • Psalms 4:4 Be angry [or stand in awe, or tremble] and sin not; commune with your own hearts upon your beds and be silent
  • Philippians 4: 6 Do not be anxious or worried about anything, but in everything [every circumstance and situation] by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, continue to make your [specific] requests known to God. 7 And the peace of God [that peace which reassures the heart, that peace] which transcends all understanding, [that peace which] stands guard over your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus [is yours].
  • James 1:19, 20 Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful, thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger [patient, reflective, forgiving]; 20 for the [resentful, deep-seated] anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God [that standard of behavior which He requires from us].