Thursday, July 9

on frustration and freedom

[sorry for the detour from poetry lately; i have really had some things on my heart to write out.]

Romans 8:20
"For the creation was subjected to frustration , not by its own choice, but by the will of the One who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious
 freedom 
of the children of God."

Lord, 
it is frustrating to have to keep changing! it is frustrating to be wrong time and time again! 
we have been all waiting together. If i am frustrated, i am not alone. You have frustrated me, You have subjected me to this life, this constantly shifting expectation, this directive to be ever content but never complacent, and if it stopped there,
 i could never forgive you.  
but You have a purpose in it all: Your dearest hope is that i would be free. and for that love, for that purpose, 
now i can never repay you. 
i was enslaved, and bound to decay - i had no hope, but you frustrated those plans and the direction i was headed, you changed things in order to liberate me from that bondage. 
so, i will endure the frustration. so, i will continue to try and change, no matter how i feel about it, because i know you have chosen what's best.
i want the glorious freedom. 

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