Frustration is a common emotional response to opposition, related to anger, annoyance, and disappointment. Frustration arises from the perceived resistance to the fulfillment of an individual’s will or goal and is likely to increase when a will or goal is denied or blocked.
How to handle Frustration?
Pray to God – Lord, I ask for your help in handling my anger in a way that honors you. Give me wisdom and strength to control my emotions and to speak words of love and kindness, even when I am feeling upset or frustrated. Help me to extend grace to those who may have hurt or offended me, just as you have extended grace to me.
In Job 21:1-16, Job argues against his friends’ idea that the wicked always suffer on Earth, pointing out that the wicked often prosper, live long, have healthy families, and enjoy life’s pleasures, sometimes even scoffing at God, while the righteous (like himself) suffer, challenging the friends’ simplistic view of divine justice. He tells them to listen to his experience, noting that wicked people flourish and die peacefully, their prosperity seemingly untouched by God’s immediate wrath, unlike what his friends claim, showing that suffering isn’t a clear sign of wickedness.
In Job 36:1-26, Elihu illustrates that God uses suffering as a disciplinary tool, not merely punishment for the wicked, to teach and purify the righteous. He emphasises God’s infinite greatness, wisdom, and power, far beyond human comprehension, and urges Job to submit to God’s incomprehensible ways rather than challenge His justice. He also highlights how God controls nature (clouds, thunder) to reveal His majesty and teach lessons of humility and awe.
According to James 1:19-20 “Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires”.
Matthew 7:13-14 describes Jesus’ parable of two gates and two paths: the wide gate and broad road. You can enter true life only through the narrow gate. The gate to hell is very wide, and there is plenty of room on the road that leads there. Many people go that way. But the gate that opens the way to true life is narrow. And the road leads there is hard to follow. Only a few people find it.
