| May 31,
2006
In your anger!
Psalm 74; 1 Why have you rejected us forever,
O God? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep
of your pasture?... 9 We are given no miraculous signs;
no prophets are left, and none of us knows how long
this will be... 12 But you, O God, are my king from
of old; you bring salvation upon the earth... 22 Rise
up, O God, and defend your cause; remember how fools
mock you all day long. 23 Do not ignore the clamor
of your adversaries, the uproar of your enemies, which
rises continually. -NIV
I was angry at God yesterday. Gasp and swoon all
you want but I am going to say it anyway. I was angry.
I had an experience that hurt me and my family deeply
and it seemed to me like “enough was enough”
I had been dealing with adversity for over a year
now and yesterday felt like the last straw.
David went through a similar time as we read Psalm74
and many others David is crying out to God sometimes
even angry frustration. He had been promised things
and at this point in his life he didn’t see
them. He didn’t even see the possibility of
them. That was what yesterday was like. So what did
he do? Did he run away and sulk? Did he lash out at
others? Did he quit? No instead he did the same thing
I did he went to God and asked why and how long. He
wrote it out like I am doing now. These Psalms of
his have helped countless generations since understand
that it is ok to question as long as you bring the
questions to the only one who can answer them. As
he bought forth these questions he was forced to remember
past victories and also to remember the promise he
had been given and to realize once again that the
one who made these promises was God. God, the all
powerful who could deal with these problems in the
blink of an eye if he wanted to so therefore if he
didn’t he must have a reason. A reason that
eventually led David (and myself) to turn from anger
to rejoicing in his name.
We will get angry at God, at others and at situations
we do not understand. So the question then is; in
our anger will we sin and turn from God, or will we
cry out to our Lord for even more help? Will we accepting
the fact that he has it all under his control and
rejoice in that fact? Yesterday I went to my God and
chose to remember and honor him. Please do the same
when it happens to you.
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