the Lord woke me up with this at 3 am. Please take time to read it before you dismiss it. Anger: Noun: a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire. Verb: (used with object) to arouse anger or wrath in. It is one of the strongest emotions that we can feel. It is one of the hardest to control at times. Yet we are often told it is one we need to suppress. I was even told once that it was not an emotion from God. Well I tend to believe it is one of the emotions God gave us but yes it is one we need to handle better at times. As I look at scripture I see many times that my God got angry. I don’t believe He was full of joy when He caused it to rain and cover the earth and kill off most of his creation. I don’t think He was laughing when He was forced to destroy a city because He could not find enough good people in it to save it. And I know there is some debate on this but I feel His Son was not in the greatest of moods when He turned the tables over in the temple. Yet a most of times when we feel anger over something going on we are told it is not of God. I believe God still gets angry and will at times let us feel that anger. If we believe He made us in His image then I believe He gave us our emotions because He has them as well. Anger is just one of them we don’t control very well. Right now I am convinced that He is angry (based off the definition above) at the way the church is treating its own. In the way we bicker and fight over the smallest of things. In the way we easily dismiss those who don’t agree with us. In the way we tend to leave our wounded and weary brothers and sisters to just fend for themselves. Even in how we will use our spiritual status or position to cause others to feel inferior. Some will say I am writing this because of recent events in my life and they might be right to some small extent. But if they truly had been listening to me this is something God has been telling me for a long time. That we don’t treat our own like He wants us to. That we need to be doing this thing we call church better. My heart is we just stop playing the game. We are in this battle together and we need each other to grow and survive. Yes it angers me as well. Yes I need to learn to handle it better than I have at times. But I refuse to let others tell me it is not from God. We (the Christian body) just need to get this right if we are truly to move on to the next big thing He has for the church.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 10:20:04 +0000
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