By Darrel E Stott
To be “frustrated” means having experienced disappointed expectations and unfulfilled ambitions.
Everyone w.ill goes through times frustration. This is part of life. But having a correct view of your frustration can mean experiencing hopelessness, anger and depression or experiencing excitement, joy and hope. The choice is ours.
Let me share with you some lessons I have learned about my frustrations.
1) Being frustrated means a time of potential change.
I used to pray for God to remove my frustration but now I try to see the change that God wants to bring into my life.
As an example when a person finds out they are being terminated at their job it is often a very traumatic experience. What do you feel? Often you are angry because your financial security is being taken away from you. Fear will attempt to come on you that you will not be able to find another job as good as this one. How will you ever pay your bills? The fear can lead you into depression and torment. At end of the day you cannot sleep as you are overcome with anxiety.
A Correct Perspective of losing your job would be:
You recognize that you did not have the courage to quit your job and look for a better paying job. You feel inferior and lack your ability to find a better job. Now you understand that God wants to give you a promotion so in His love and wisdom he allows for you to be terminated.
Many people work at jobs they never enjoy. They do the job because it pays them a salary. But God has put talents and ideas inside of you He wants you to expand and enjoy. This is why God has allowed for you to be terminated.
Now you smile and feel great joy and physical energy to look for the promotion that God has for you. Most people have never learned this lesson. If you have the right perspective it will change many things in your life.
We need to remind ourselves that we have an enemy called the devil. His plan for our lives is to bring something into our lives to “steal our JOY”. The Joy of the Lord is our strength. When we have JOY we are strong. If the devil can rob your JOY then you become weak and vulnerable to his plan.
God has a great plan for you and your future. But the devil wants to side track you from God’s great plan and brings a detour into your life through “FEAR”. Once you are a prisoner of
FEAR you have a wrong perspective about everything. Now you will make wrong choices. Now you see the frustration as your enemy. Instead of embracing it you want it removed.
2) Frustration is the door for a “promotion” in your life.
The plan of God is bless you so that you will experience success in all areas of your life. When you read the Old Testament have you noticed how the great men and women of God were so often rich financially? This is not an accident but it is the plan of God.
When you know you are at a time of promotion in your life it releases you mind to be open to new thing, new people and new opportunities.
Now you do not look for another job that is the same but a better job, a better opportunity because God is with you! You must believe that. Remember that times of hardship and crisis are times of opportunity for the children of God. Others are afraid but we believe we are called of God to be the solution to people’s problems. Our minds are to be supernatural and filled with the wisdom of God. AMEN
When the children of Israel were going to be destroyed by the giant Goliath and everyone was full of fear the Bible tells us David had a different perspective. Remember he was young, others did not see him as qualified but he believed he was the solution to the problem.
When he looked at Goliath he smiled and said to the men ‘How much money is the reward for killing that Giant and removing this problem?” He refuses to be fearful but seizes a moment with everyone is full of fear and they have no solution. He becomes the solution.
When he solved the problem and killed the Giant Goliath it resulted in immense “promotion” in his personal life. David would have never have become king of Israel without experiencing the problem of Goliath.
In conclusion
Recognize “frustration” for what it is.
Frustration is a sign from God of change and an opportunity for promotion.
Do not listen to negative people but get alone with God and see the problems through God’s perspective.
Now you can buy a house for 4% not 14%. Is this a big saving? When many companies are going out of business this is an opportunity for NEW business. When there is high unemployment it means there are many people willing to work for a lower wage. Just get the right perspective.
