Lost In The Maze? Frustration

LOST IN THE MAZE. IDENTIFY THE TRIGGERS!

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (Watch YouTube: Wade Hughes) I HAVE A CANDLE BURNING.

*MAZE: CONFUSING. In a maze it is easy to get lost. It is a network of paths as a puzzle through which you have to find the right way.

*FRUSTRATE: annoyed, IRRITABILITY, temper tantrums, to bring to nothing, vain (useless), to break, to make void, explosive outbursts, argumentative, hostile and enraged.

THE ADRENAL GLANDS FLOOD YOUR MIND AND BODY WITH STRESS HORMONES. We call it bipolar, depression, stress. Your heart rate builds, blood pressure gets higher, breathing increases, SLEEPING PROBLEMS, chronic sickness and pain. Have we ever tried to identify the triggers?

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET ENGAGED AND MARRY FRUSTRATION?

*DEFINE FRUSTRATION: to give your best effort and see little to no results, the feeling of being upset or annoyed, the inability to change something, no confidence, you can’t do what you want.

When we get engaged and marry frustration, we accept the whole family. Anger, Weary, Distracted Focus, Depression, Aggravation, Staying the Same and to Blame. ALL THESE IN-LAWS MOVE IN WITH YOUR NEW WIFE! IS IT UNTIL DEATH DO US PART?

FRUSTRATION AND THE MOTH! REMEMBER WE HAVE A LARGE CANDLE BURNING IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH. REMEMBER THE DEADLY COST OF FRUSTRATION?

Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.

We pretend to be camping out. The candle represents the camp fire. The temperatures start dropping at night. The moth feels the heat ascending from the camp fire. The light of the fire attracts the moth. The moth gets frustrated by the cool air. He flies closer and closer. The heat from the fire helps the frustration to fade away. The frustrated-driven pretty little moth flies closer to the light and is really enjoying the heat. The frustration of the cool night is gone. The fire’s heat brings joy to the frustrated moth. THE MOTH CAN’T SEE THE DANGER THE COOL FRUSTRATION HAS BROUGHT. Soon there is a foul smell in the air. The attraction of the light and the warmth of the fire --- the moth has caught on fire and falls into the flame. FRUSTRATION BRINGS THE LURE TO LOOK BACK.

AM I IN A MAZE? FRUSTRATION CREATES A LONGING AND DISTORTS THE VISION… WHILE WE REMEMBER, HAVE WE FORGOTTEN THE KILLING OF THE BABY BOYS, THE BRICKS, THE SLAVERY, THE MISTREATMENT?

Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

WE ARE IN A MAZE! NOT EVEN A MINNOW? WE ARE EXHAUSTED! I AM SO TIRED OF NOTHING…FISHING? YES, CATCHING FISH PROVIDES US WITH FOOD… BUT REMEMBER THE CAREER CHOICE, CATCHING FISH IS HOW WE PAY THE BILLS. FISHING IS NOT A HOBBY. FISHING IS MY FINANCIAL PROVISION…

We have done the best we know how. The bills are due. We worked hard and toiled all night. We are professional fishermen. We have tried every trick we know.

Luke 5:5a And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing:

Luke 5:5a (NLT2) 5 “Master,” Simon replied, “we worked hard all last night and didn’t catch a thing.

ARE WE LOST IN THE MAZE? WE WILL TRUST WHAT YOU SAY EVEN IF WE ARE FRUSTRATED. HEY JESUS YOU ARE A CARPENTER BY TRADE… DO YOU THINK CARPENTERS CAN TELL FISHERMEN HOW TO FISH?

Luke 5:5b …nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.

Luke 5:5b (MSG)… But if you say so, I'll let out the nets."

NEVERTHELESS, WE WILL BE POSITIVE. IN SPITE OF OUR BEST EFFORT: WHEN YOU ARE FRUSTRATED YOU MUST LEARN TO CLOSE YOUR MOUTH AND BE OBEDIENT. WHAT IS OUR CAPACITY? WE WILL TRUST YOUR WORDS JESUS.

Luke 5:6 And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake. 7 And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.

THE MAZE: FRUSTRATION? FRUSTRATED FISHERMEN LEARN THE LESSON: THE CALL IS NOT ABOUT FISH, THE CALL IS ABOUT PEOPLE!

Matthew 4:19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

NOT ALL FRUSTRATION IS SELF-IMPOSED. MOST OF US ARE SO GOOD AT FEELING FRUSTRATED WE NEED NO HIRED GUNS TO FRUSTRATE US.

Ezra 4:5 And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

THE MAZE: FRUSTRATION CAN CAUSE OUR EYES TO BE BLINDED. WE CAN BECOME SO STRESSED AND WEARY THAT WE BECOME BLINDED TO REALITY. WE THINK OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ARE AGAINST US. I AM LOST IN THIS MAZE OF LIFE.