Repentance: An Invitation to RestSample

Where Do You Take Your Anger?

Anger is a gauge of our relationships with one other… and with God. Anger is an indicator that there is work to be done… today. 

When we are wronged—real or perceived—anger is a flare-up of the dross as God refines us in His crucible. Anger is a God-given barometer of an expectation being challenged, a resentment being brought to light, the scab of an old wound being ripped off. It's the prompting of the Holy Spirit to surrender that idol to God.

God uses anger to move us toward Him and each other; Satan attempts to use it to drive us apart from God and each other. 

Take your anger to God. He can take it… He WILL take it and restore you to peace. The enemy of your soul, by contrast, will throw gasoline on it and give you skewers that you may roast your fellows—and your Father—on it.

Where do you take your anger?

Reflection

When you are angry, how do you avoid sinning? Are you suppressing your anger? Or do you let it fly with your words and then forget it?

Suppressing anger leads to resentment, which hurts you.

Expressing anger hurts others.

What if you were to allow God to reveal the source of your anger so that you can cast down the idols that are keeping you from peace?