captivatingbitter

This is one of the most amazing things about the Scriptures to me. There are many verses when men and women of God where angry at God. If God was anything like my dad He would have brushed these verses or even books (in the case of Job) under the rug. He wouldn’t have allowed it to be Scripture. But God is nothing like my dad (thankfully) and invites us to question. The One with all power does not seek to control us. He seeks our returned love. In a healthy relationship there is room to not only be happy and sad, but also to be angry.
Now the tough part of this equation is that often others actions deserve our anger. They have hurt us; sometimes purposefully, sometimes accidentally. Anger is a healthy emotion that seeks to right injustices. It seeks to bring attention to important things that have…