frustration and masters

frustration. the product of the realisation of one's inability to find solutions to one's questions and problems.

everyone with a thinking mind asks the question "why". few, however, understand why.

very often, we wonder why things go wrong around us, and these "wrong" things then seem to be what's troubling us. for example, if i discover one day that i was backstabbed by someone whom i regard to be a close friend, i would then wonder "WHAT IN THE WORLD!?" and then lament and agonise over the fact that my friend betrayed me. the betrayal, then seems to be the "problem". however, the real source of frustration isn't in the "problem" that i percieved to be, but rather my approach to the situation. i get frustrated not because of the betrayal first and foremost, but because i refuse to stop wondering why it had to happen, or why it happened.

it seems that we have trained ourselves to ask why something has to happen that hurts or baffles us, as if it shouldn't be happening. this leads us to be in a state of denial, because we don't want to believe that the problem is already happening or has happened, as is evident in our continual quest for a reason for it to happen, without which we cannot be fully convinced that there needs no further proof that what happened already has.

the solution to frustration is to acknowledge, not reason. acknowledge that the situation took place. acknowledge that we don't know, and don't have to. acknowledge that we can't solve everything. and, most importantly, acknowledge that God can solve everything, and He allowed us through the ordeal to make us not stronger (because He desires weakness in us, weakness that allows His true strength to flourish), not more dignified, not prouder, but holier. God's ultimate desire is for us to be holy - beautiful and perfect without blemish, just as a man desires the perfect wife - and He does it through helping us make the right choices in tough times, if only we'd adhere to Him! and after acknowledging these things, believe it. behave like its true, cos it is!

there is then no place for frustration AT ALL, even if the world crumbles (literally), for those who acknowledge God's soverign hand in all things. reasoning is man's own effort to figure what's happening around us. but acknowledging God for who He is makes us masters over the pain of sin.

perhaps the world can truly be transformed into the likeness of the kingdom of God if we stopped questioning and started becoming true masters who offer up ourselves as answers to the pain and sickness around us.