Psalm 82
So often we come to God with anger and questions and for most of us that anger and those questions are usually selfish, we have been wronged, we go without, we are hurting. The first thing you need to know is that their is nothing wrong with going to God with our anger and our questions. The second thing that you need to know is that their isn't anything wrong with some of that anger and those questions being selfish, it's not wrong to want, it's not wrong to desire, it's not wrong to feel slighted.
The third thing that you need to know, and it is knowledge that the psalmist shows us by example, is that we also need to go to God when our anger and our questions are not selfish at all. It is extremely important that we bring our anger, our pain, our questions about those who are suffering to God. It is extremely important that we live with eyes open to the inconsistencies in our culture, our economy, our structures and that we create a righteous anger within ourselves about those inconsistencies. There are times when we should have a base need to overthrow some tables in our countries and in our churches.
Whether or not we should be angry is not the issue, where our anger comes from and where we direct it should be the issue. We need to be angry over the pain of others, we need to be angry over the inconsistencies, we need to be angry over those who hold up immoral structures. In addition we need to be able to use our anger in constructive, godly ways, so that when people see our actions they will know why we are doing what we are doing.
+ Think of a time when you went to God with selfish anger, how did you feel afterward?
+ Think of a time when you went to God with selfless anger, how did you feel afterward?
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