Frustrated?

Sometimes our frustrations lead us to break through thoughts, ideas, and spiritual enrichment. Usually our frustrations are the cause of someone else doing or saying something to us. Sometimes our frustrations are due to ourself as well. But the range of emotions that we go through during frustration is huge.  We get angry, mad and ticked off. We then sometimes move to self loathing, depression, and other emotions as well. Often times we put those emotions on someone else or we keep them in. Both are unhealthy to us mentally, spiritually and emotionally and sometimes even physically. So how do we deal with frustration? Frustration is often times and opportunity to either embrace the emotion in a negative way or to allow it to push you into a positive direction. When we allow it to push us in a negative way the emotions stated above play out in your life and usually there is sin involved there. But what does it look like to use frustration in a positive way? If we are willing frustration has the ability to make us look critically at our life or what we are doing. It has the ability to allow us to come up with great ideas because we allow the frustration to make what we are doing or who we are better. It can allow us to dream about what if I was not this way or what if what I am doing was not this way. It can allow us to be creative, and push ourself to something greater. Maybe that greater is our character, our ministry, our job, our family, our relationship with Jesus or others. Frustration can bring joy to our lives as we embrace the thoughts or criticism that comes to us, whether that is personal or form someone else. Either way frustration can be turned positive and be used to bring greater glory to Jesus Christ in our life and in others lives. So don't let frustration get your down let it pick you up. Allow frustration to let your mind be creative, visionary, disciplined, and loving. Let it show you who you really are and move from that in a way that moves you closer to Jesus. Let frustration give you life in who you are and what you are doing.