Fruitless Frustration
“For look, they lie in wait for my life; The mighty gather against me, Not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Lord. They run and prepare themselves through no fault of mine. Awake to help me, and behold!” Psalms 59:3-4 NKJV Frustration doesn’t have fans; it torments all associates without discrimination. While the experience of the psalmist depicts the righteous frustrations in the hands of the wicked, the plights of king Saul and his kill squadrons represent the frustration of the wicked in search of the righteous. And until the agents of life’s frustrations lead the righteous, like the psalmist, to the Lord, all preparations, strategies, and schemes of the righteous for escape and breakthrough in life are tantamount to fruitless frustration. Unfortunately, one of the major ambitions of the wicked is the leading of the righteous into the same frame of his fruitless frustration. Whenever the righteous lose the confidence to stand before the throne of grace, like t...