We blame too much stuff on God and other people.
I’ll give you an example.
Or 2.

1. Sometimes we say we’re waiting on God, and we really mean we’re lazy and unwilling to take the risk.
And our lives are stagnant, not because we’re patiently waiting for the Lord, but because we’re stubbornly resisting a challenge.
Don’t label your disobedience as patience and pretend like God doesn’t know the difference.

2. Many pastors insist that their people don’t have any vision.
Sometimes they’re really frustrated because they went to Ed Young’s conference, listened to all the mp3s of Mark Driscoll’s messages from an Acts 29 Boot Camp, and read Warren cover to cover (again), and still can’t figure out how to make it work in their own context.
In that case, it’s not really about people who don’t have any vision, it’s about a guy who needs to stop cutting and pasting methodologies and start letting God birth something unique through him from the inside out.
He’s frustrated because he’s faking it. And his people see right through it.
You cannot impart a vision that you do not own.

A lot of the time (not all of the time), the frustration you’re feeling is your own dang fault.
And that inspires me.
If my problem is your fault, my progress is tied up in whether you come around.

By making my issue about me, and bringing it before God, I can move ahead.
Whether you like it or not…