
You know how your finger will get caught for just a second, then get flicked forward and the cuticle will hit something so hard it short–circuits your brain? Yeah, just did that. After the manly squealing subsided, I thought about how pain is a gift. It may not feel like it when it’s happening, but it’s God’s built–in warning system to let you know something is wrong with your body. It wasn’t a big revelation, but I recognized there was more than pain attached to the moment. I felt stupid, and angry at myself. I was frustrated.
Like pain, frustration is also a gift, a warning system for the soul instead of the body. It can be hard to see that if, like me, you have established ways of dealing with frustration. None of them good, but you go with what you know. So you either push it down, medicate it, or let it boil over onto the next person you see. At some point, though, you’ve got to admit that passive–aggressive, self–piteous, and moody probably aren’t the mindsets God has intended for you to live in.
With pain, you learn what not to do—I’m not going to flick my fingernail against the edge of the table again just to make sure that’s what caused the pain. I got it the first time. If physical pain had a voice, it would say, “OW! Dang, dude! Don’t do that again!” You also learn you may need to seek help. But with frustration, you learn how to appease it. Its voice is different: “You’re a failure. They’re going to reject you again. You never do anything right.” If you haven’t learned how to hear God’s voice regardless of your circumstances, you’re going to listen to those lies. Eventually you’re going to agree with them. And then you’re going to find ways to placate them.
It’s time to see frustration differently. It’s not your conscience. It’s not your inner voice. It’s not in charge of how you feel, or how you respond to what’s going on around you. The enemy has hacked your soul’s warning system and been sending you the wrong messages for years. Let God restore His gift it to you, so you can again see frustration a warning your hope has fallen to being dependent on the outcome of circumstances, rather than on who God is for you.
Take a deep breath, then pray something like this:
“Father, I give You my heart and my mind. All of it. I give you my frustration, and all the ways I’ve dealt with it since I was a child. I ask you to renew my thinking, so that I see myself, everyone around me, and all my circumstances as You do. Let frustration be the gift in my life that You intend for it to be. Teach me how to use it to quickly refocus my thoughts on to who You want to be for me, what You’re saying, and who I’m becoming in You. Thank you for Your love, grace, peace, patience, kindness, and all Your goodness toward me. In Jesus name, Amen.”

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