Daily Inspiration

When Life Irritates You

Posted on by Patrick Weaver

Beauty requires irritation…

Let’s face it, life can get under our skin. Situations, struggles, and yes, people can get under our skin. What’s also true is, your beautification requires irritation. I know that doesn’t sound encouraging, but irritants serve a purpose, a divine purpose.

We were created to grow to our next levels in life, and growing can be irritating. When life happens, our faith is challenged to rise to the occasion, put on the full armor of God, and defend our promise. When an irritant shows up, you will be challenged to see God in the purpose and the victory in the valley. Irritants often show up to challenge our beliefs, emotions, or expectations. Some of our greatest lessons come from our most irritating moments, trials, struggles, and tests.

Now, let me be clear, there are harmful irritants and there are helpful irritants. I’m talking about helpful irritants. The kind that makes us examine ourselves and helps us to change for the better. Helpful irritants are an agent for your good. Harmful irritants are those that result from disobedience to God, refusing to do what the spirit of God is telling us, or dishonoring ourselves.

Put This In Your Spirit: The bible says, “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it” (Hebrews 12:11).  In other words, irritations that grow us, teach us, or help us to get out of our comfort zone, produces a harvest in our life.

We don’t like irritants, nobody does, but the path to our palace promise, as Joseph’s was, will have some irritants. Joseph’s pit was an irritant, Potiphar’s wife was Joseph’s irritant, and Joseph’s incarceration was an irritant — on his path to the palace (Genesis 37, 39, 40, 41). You, too, will have irritants along your journey to God’s promises. It’s not the irritant that keeps us from our promise, but our response to the irritant.

A pearl is beautiful when you see it in the store, but did you know that a pearl gets its beauty from irritation?  Natural Pearls form when an irritant works its way into an oyster, mussel, or clam. As a defense mechanism, they release a fluid to coat the irritant. Layer upon layer of this coating, called ‘nacre‘, is deposited until a beautiful pearl is formed.

If you understand the analogy of the pearl, you will understand why the person who leaves you or has to be removed from your life is an irritant. You will understand why losing to win can be an irritant. You will understand why healing is an irritant. You will understand why turning the page and writing your next chapter is an irritant. You are not irritated to be destroyed, you’re irritated by your beauty…in other words, the irritant is working all things together for the good. Irritation comes when irritation is necessary.

Your healthy irritant is God’s gift to you. Sometimes, our healthy irritant is the person who tells us the truth, the person who’s honest with us, the person who won’t agree or go along with us to make us feel good. Through faith, we have to develop a tolerance for irritants. Without irritants, we are doomed to repeat cycles, stay stuck behind enemy lines, and wander in the wilderness longer than we need to.

When you are experiencing an irritant and everything in you is saying you can’t do it, or you begin to wonder what you must do to transform your irritant into beauty, into a new chapter, into your healing, or a victory, surround yourself with support. The key to transforming irritants into beauty is wisdom: “The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding” (Proverbs 4:7). God is a rewarder of those who seek understanding (Hebrews 11:6)!

Irritants don’t come with instructions; irritants don’t come with one-size-fits-all solutions. Irritants come with a challenge to rise to the occasion, to defeat the Goliath, and to march until our Jericho walls fall. When you’re determined to win, to conquer, to go to your next level, make up your mind to seek the wisdom and support you need to fight the good fight of faith and to turn your irritant into your beauty.

Carry On!

7 thoughts on “When Life Irritates You”

  5. winnie.muiruri@gmail.com says:

    I Am Here To Say All Glory Belongs To God,Who Divinely Connected Me To This Ministry..
    I Was in Btn Hell& Heaven btn life and death,btn insanity..
    Patrick Weaver Ministry, Thank You🙏
    More Grace Servant of God
    1 Corinthians 15:58 is yo’Word Forever ❤️

  6. winnie.muiruri@gmail.com says:

    I Am Here To Say All Glory Belongs To God,Who Divinely Connected Me To This Ministry..
    I Was in Btn Hell& Heaven btn life and death,btn insanity..
    Patrick Weaver Ministry, Thank You🙏
    More Grace Servant of God
    1 Corinthians 15:58 is yo’Word Forever ❤️

  7. Chereen Francis says:

    This paged helped me through my wors period in my failed marriage left broken abundant when I felt I couldnt i saw this page in 2022 and until then I’ve been on this healing yourney ” Healing is not a destination, but a yourney that words kept me going. Thank you Patrick Weaver for your unfailing commitment towards women on a healing yourney love Chereen from South Africa 🇿🇦 ❤️

Comments are closed.