Do you ever get discouraged?

Do you ever get discouraged by the daily life around you and wonder where God is in all of it? Do you ever get discouraged by the way you perform in your daily life and wonder what God is doing in you to make you a new creation?
Do you ever look to the Bible for the answers and it all seems like gobbledeegook that you couldn't understand with a thousand biblical scholars explanations??
That is the kind of day I had yesterday.

Thank goodness His mercies are new EVERY morning...because this morning I realized why!
Yesterday was a test. No, not a test of the emergency broadcast system. :) (sorry, couldn't resist)
Yesterday was one of those days when the world gets thrown at you to test your reaction time. And yesterday, I was SLOW!! I had a talk with my own child yesterday about purpose and discovering your calling in this world and realized that I wasn't practicing what I was preaching to my own child. In order to have the door opened to our purpose in this world, we have to be usable and mold-able. We have to allow the Holy Spirit to come into us and transform us into God's likeness so that the world will see HIM and not us. That likeness is evidenced by the fruits of the spirit. When we have surrendered to him, those fruits will be so visible that people will look at our life and wonder HOW. How in the world is she so patient with that person? How does she have such peace through her circumstances? How does she love that person that is SO unlovable? How does she live such a disciplined life? And the answer to those questions is
supernatural! It's not because of our own ability to navigate this world, it's God in us!

So yesterday, my fruit got SQUEEZED! And they are still VERY soft and worldly.

Another revelation this morning about why the Bible is so hard to understand sometimes, even for a believer and especially for a non-believer...

The disciples came to him and asked, "Why do you speak to the people in parables?"

¹¹He replied, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. ¹²Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. ¹³This is why I speak to them in parables:
"Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand. ¹⁴In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
" 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
¹⁵For this people's heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.'^b]">[b] ¹⁶But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. ¹⁷For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.