"Anger; Get Over It"
There is no way to prove this and psychologists will want to dispute it but I think there is something at the core of our being that is the source of our anger. There are people who become targets for our anger. There are times when we are angry at ourselves. There are situations over which we have no control and that rises our levels of frustration to the point of anger. There are moments of confluent confusion that have only one response; anger.
Sometimes we realize when we are angry at someone else that we are finding in them the shadow side of ourselves. Our anger is aimed at them but, in truth, it is self directed.
Sometimes we look at the way the world is and we become angry with what we see. We become angry at the way nations are quick to go to war and how innocent people are killed.
Sometimes there are situations that make no sense at all. You can be at the wrong place at the wrong time and you become angry at fate.
My theory is this:
The ultimate source of all anger is God. When we are angry and we think we understand it; we have focused an specific emotion that has an ultimate origin.
If we are to get over our anger we are going to have to deal with our anger with God.
The sermon will attempt to deal with that.
How do we deal with our anger with God?
Do you think all anger has God as its source?
What do you think?
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I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles
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I think you made a pretty big leap from anger having it's origens from God to our anger at God being the source core of all our anger.
We are given the wisdom in Provers to be slow to anger. That to me doesn't mean withou anger, but to meditate on what the cause and appropriate actions should be.
There are of course times when we demand answers of God when there are no answers. We hold God to blame because we feel we should be in control of the uncontrollable. We must certainly address this in our lives.
When I feel anger at co-workers or family associated with the daily disagreements that occur in life, that's often my own selfishness or inablility to look at the larger picture. To say that resolving anger issues with God will eliminate anger in all parts of my life is not plausible to me.
We are, I believe, created beings. Anger is part of what is creaed within us. When the sources are well contemplated and the results focus, it is a potentially powerful force for effective change.
when we allow it to go unchecked and allow anger to blindly control ourselves, then it is an equally powerful force for self destruction or the destruction around us.
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