What To Do With Frustration

1 Tim. 2:8 "without wrath and doubting" (KJV)

Lately it seems like I've been frustrated a lot.  We need a second car and the ones we have looked at were several thousand dollars with over 100,000 miles.  We have a water leak we couldn't find and we couldn't get a plumber to call us back or come out for an estimate.   My daughter's a mechanic and she got frustrated at trying to put on four springs all at once for the brakes.  She had to walk away from it for a time.

Anger easily follows. Are car dealers being greedy? Are plumbers jerks because they won't call back? Was someone overpaid because they couldn't design it better?

We have been praying for these things for a long time and it seems things are not getting better. It is very easy at these times to think of God as being unfaithful.  There are plenty of people in the Bible that were frustrated too.  Abraham "staggered not" in his faith for a child. (Heb 4:20, KJV).  Hannah, Samuel's mother, was frustrated by being barren, which in turn made her husband frustrated. (1 Sam 1:8)  King David expresses his frustrations in the Psalms.

I prayed for Brenda.  She calmed down and got the job done.  Hannah prayed and she gave birth to Samuel. Abraham talked to God and got his promise of a son. Psalms is a mixture of emotions, but always ends up with praise for God.

The only thing I know what to do for frustration is to pray, claim verses about God's faithfulness, and know that it is important to believe the Bible rather than your feelings.