EDIM 16 - Frustration
Frustration is unreasonable. Doesn't help anything. I can't help but think of how Jesus must have felt the millionth time some Pharisee asked him a trap question involving spitting in the dirt on sabbath or some such obscure law. Jesus was God, yes. His patience is understandable within his deity, astounded though I am over it anyway. Fell beings require much patience.
Yet he was also man, capable of feeling the same frustrations as I. He did everything right, with the right mindset, with the right heart, something I couldn't hope to do. And so many simply could not understand even then. How disheartening and frustrating that would be.
What a blessing to be loved by him. In him who clears my frustration and guides me along a better route.
God's word will speak better than I am able to tonight.
Philippians 3:7-14, "But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ -the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already obtained this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."
Yet he was also man, capable of feeling the same frustrations as I. He did everything right, with the right mindset, with the right heart, something I couldn't hope to do. And so many simply could not understand even then. How disheartening and frustrating that would be.
What a blessing to be loved by him. In him who clears my frustration and guides me along a better route.
God's word will speak better than I am able to tonight.
Philippians 3:7-14, "But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ -the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already obtained this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."
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