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Frustration is that feeling of impatience and anxiety that we get when we think our needs are not being met or when we deal with seemingly insurmountable problems. Sometimes, God is the focus of ou...

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Mark Vestal Proud of nothing of myself. Freed by Christ who did it all!

The short answer is yes, it is wrong to be frustrated with God. Another question to ask is from where is our frustration originating? As previously mentioned, it may be our lack of understanding in how God operates today that would lead us to believe that any frustration with God is warranted.

Consider the fact that although God Himself never changes, how He deals with mankind throughout the Bible does change. An easily recognizable example of this can be seen in how His dietary restrictions were altered numerous times. Believing members of the church, the body of Christ, have no limitations on what we may consume to sustain life. Compare this to the restrictions placed on God's chosen people, the nation of Israel, prior to God speaking in Peter's dream to "kill and eat" what was previously considered to be unclean meat (Acts 10:9-15).

With this truth established, compare the life of Paul pre and post-salvation. Prior to Christ ascended opening the eyes of Saul of Tarsus, and appropriating the gospel of God's grace to the world, Saul (the apostle Paul) was a well established leader in the Jews religion, a Pharisee. Look what Paul has to say regarding all that he had prior to his apostleship:

Phil 3:5-9
"Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:"

What Paul may have perceived to be earthly blessings from God during his tenure in the Jewish religion, he now counts as "loss" and "dung" compared to that of the excellence found in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. This is why Paul urges believers to follow him as he also follows Christ, which is after the Spirit and not the flesh:

2 Cor 5:16
"Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more."

Col 3:1
"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God."

Believers today are not promised "earthly blessings" during this age where it is God's grace that abounds. Even Paul himself asked God on three occasions to remove the thorn in his flesh. God's response to Paul was that God's grace was sufficient. Why would we believe that we should have more than Paul, the leader of the current church of believers? Is God's grace not sufficient for us all even today?

If we recognize that we are blessed with "all SPIRITUAL blessings in HEAVENLY places" (Eph 1:3) then we may be less apt to be frustrated when our carnal wishes are not met with earthly blessings from God while living in the flesh on earth. What should also be kept in mind is that it may rather be "the god of this world" that is supplying us with any earthly "blessings" that we perceive to have.

2 Cor 1:12
"For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward."

2 Cor 4:3-4
"But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."

2 Cor 11:3
"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."

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