Angry God

    We see God as the man that has it altogether. He is slow to anger. Loves easily. Has a billion upon billions of children, that he crafted by hand. He is made perfect from the beginning of time...shall I go on? We know how awesome God is, but one side we don't often like to think of or even acknowledge is his anger. It sounds crazy right? So he is a man that is slow to anger but yet is angry?? This might seem like a strange lesson but I think it is important that we know what God is capable of. God is a man of many wonders but he does get angry, but specifically at us. God dislikes everything that works against us because he was once human so he realizes how hard it truly is to have people and things work against you. So that's what God gets angry about because it alters how we act. Even when we are in a strong relationship with Christ we still get down when things come our way. Lets take a closer look into what God's anger actually looks like.


   "Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath. He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again. How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert! They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel. They did not remember his power or the day when he redeemed them from the foe, when he performed his signs in Egypt and his marvels in the fields of Zoan. He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams. He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them. He gave their crops to the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust. He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost. He gave over their cattle to the hail and their flocks to thunderbolts. He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels. He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague. He struck down every firstborn in Egypt, the first fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham. Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won. He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents."
                                                            ~Psalms 78:38-55


    Obviously God can get a little angry with us when we rebel against him on purpose. And just like you're parents have said, they only punish you to teach you a lesson. God is allowed to get angry but not in the hopes of hurting anyone but in hopes of a better us. It seems so strange that anger actually helps one person but with the right anger shows the grace of God.

    It has been said by Jonathan Edwards that God shows his anger to scare us into repenting. Now he does the whole angry God thing in the sermon called "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" a bit too harsh at times but the concept is one to be taken away. We need to see God as concerned and on fire rather than angry sometimes because we often end up reading God the wrong way. There is not much to say about an angry God because God acts differently towards each of us in a different way. We just need to discover how so do just that. Discover how God "sternly" teaches and talks to you.



Word of the Day:  "But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint."
                                                   ~Isaiah 40:31