I spoke with a friend a couple weeks ago and simply listened to the situations he was facing. There was a sense of inability, excitement, fear, passion etc. It was a moment where restlessness resided because discontentment, inability, and God's grace pervaded. As the Puritans spoke, it was 'Holy Frustration'. It is not to say that sin did not play a part in the process of discontentment, but it is to say that this discontentment and inability pushes one to God through a variety of struggles. It causes us to pursue God, to look for Him and to assess His plan and His gifting. Holy Frustration is the whirlwind where one finds nowhere to look but up. This is only the means to the glorious end where God breaks through the storm and speaks, 'be still'. It is not that He speaks it to the storm but He speaks it to our heart stirring us to a greater dependence upon and wonder in the Cross.
"These inward trials I employ
From self and pride to set thee free
And break thy schemes of earthly joy
that thou may'st seek thy all in me."