THE GIFT OF FRUSTRATION

 By Mark Drake

Here is a critical truth I am learning the hard way

Knowing what you are supposed to do and become, does not give you the  ability to do and become. But it does create great  frustration.

I am also learning that this often confusing, and frequently painful,  frustration is a gift from God.  It drives us to search for something  different, something new, and to look for something that really works.   This frustration with our inability is designed to drive us to Him in search of  His ability.  This is the very frustration the Law was designed to  produce!

One of the main purposes of the Law was to cause people to run out of  their own ability and run to Him.  

When sin shows up in our lives we must admit we are not trusting in God’s  grace.
God wants the law to force us into saying, “Lord, if this is what You  require, I am not able do this by myself”.  This frustration with our  inability was meant to drive us to the source of true ability; the true Grace of  God.

The Law clearly defined what it would take to live righteously before  God.  The Law pushes us in the direction of our only hope; true  grace.  And the frustration the Law produces in honest seekers is what  brings us to God’s goal for all life, the New Covenant in Jesus.

The promise of the New Covenant is transformation by the power of the  indwelling Spirit.  Change is the evidence of true grace working in our  lives.

The commands in the New Testament help diagnose where we are not interacting  with true grace.  Our responsibility to confess where the Word tells us we  are falling short, where we are sinning.

We must put our faith in the Spirit who lives within us; in our heart, mind  and body.  Then we must interact with the Spirit as He changes us from the  inside out.
This is both the hope and Good News of the true New  Covenant!

I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.

Let me ask you this…. Have you ever felt so frustrated you just had to close  the door and scream?
For me, (in the past)  .. I had a bad habit of kicking my computer. And for those  who know  me, they were shocked because I am a really easy going guy and they had a hard  time seeing me lose my cool, LOL.

Well, I believe this article by Mark help summed it up.  It was really a  gift. It forced me to rely soley on God and what I mean here, I’ll do my part  but I leave the results up to God.

My frustration usually ended up because I had the wrong outlook on how I  believed God should be running my life. Now this will be a whole another article  so I better move onto the article at hand before I roam off on a tangent   :)



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