Faithful and Frustrated - Wk2
September 19, 2021

Good Grief!

Week two - Faithful and Frustrated
Psalm 6


We’ve talked for decades about

anger, but I want to talk about frustration.

We play nice with God.
“God is good, all the time.”
“Too blessed to be stressed.”
“This is hard, but I know God has a plan.”

God prefers

prayers to prayers.

God wants to hear from you.
“Ask and it will be given.”
“Come to me all you who are weary.”
“Turn to me”
Cry out to me.”

1 Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath. 2 Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am faint; heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony. 3 My soul is in deep anguish.
How long, Lord, how long?
4 Turn, Lord, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love. 5 Among the dead no one proclaims your name. Who praises you from the grave?
6 I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears. 7 My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes.
8 Away from me, all you who do evil, for the Lord has heard my weeping.
9 The Lord has heard my cry for mercy; the Lord accepts my prayer.
10 All my enemies will be overwhelmed with shame and anguish; they will turn back and suddenly be put to shame. —Psalm 6:1-10


The difference between holy frustration and being wholly frustrated, is remembering and affirming God’s faithfulness in the

of it, not in spite of it.

  1. Just because you don’t feel it, doesn’t mean you don’t it.
  2. Just because you are feeling it doesn’t mean you’re it.