Frustration ~ Not Good

Okay... I am frustrated!!!

It seems that I have spent too much time lately being frustrated.  Here are some of the things that I am frustrated about:

1. I have a blog... but I don't seem to be blogging
2. I have a church... but I don't seem to be going to church.
3. My relationship with God is sometimes no existent
4. WORK
5. Youth teams and youth athletics as a whole
6. Not enough time to get things done around the house that need to be done.
7. Home finances

I will stop there because I seem to be getting frustrated with the amount of things that I am frustrated about.  Wow am I a lost cause or what?  Here is the issue... I spend too much time worrying about things that I don't need to worry about.

Matthew 6:25-27  “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?  Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

I really need to stop worrying or being anxious about things that I have no control over.  It always seems to revolve around the negative things in my life.  I can't seem to break away from them.  I need to cut off conversations with people when I recognize that topics are moving toward the negative.

Colossians 3:15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

This verse from Colossians is right on the money.  I really need to focus on what is positive in my life.  I have a ton of things to be thankful for.  If I were to focus on those things I don't think I could remove the smile from my face.  The Lord has really blessed me.  I have to admit that at times I wonder where in the world is the Lord?  I at times ask him for help and I am not sure if he is really there.  However my issue is that I spend so much time focusing on the negative parts of my life that I forget to see the way that he truly moves in my life.  

Lord,

Help me this week to be THANKFUL!!!  Help me to see what is great in my life and then lift praise to you for all the amazing things you have done for me.  Give me the courage to stop conversations that are not positive.  Help me to be bold enough to stand for what is right and not allow others (or myself) from participating in gossip.  

 

Bless me Lord!!!

Love in Christ.

Scott