Friday, February 17, 2023

SLOW TO ANGER

 

 

 

 

 

 

SLOW TO ANGER

 

 

Do you ever get angry?

 

If you don’t

You are

NOT like the rest of us

 

Do you ever get angry

At God

 

I don’t

I think-in general

It’s people

And our way of thinking

That gets us

In trouble

 

But if you ever

Get angry at God

I think it is alright

At least

You are in conversation

With him

 

I think God

Wants to hear from us

Even if

He does not agree

With our way of thinking

 

“My dear brothers

Take note on this

Everyone should be

Quick to listen

Slow to speak

And SLOW to become angry

For man’s anger

Does not bring

About

The righteous life

That God desires”

 

If you are angry

Have a conversation with God

Tell how God how you feel

I think God

Is probably

As angry about it

As you are

 

God hates sin

God HATES injustice

 

“The Lord is compassionate

And gracious

Slow to anger

Abounding in love

 

He will NOT always accuse

Nor will he harbor

His anger forever”                                                                Psalm 103:8-9

 

Unlike some of us

Who hold a grudge forever

 

Look how the Lord

Treated Moses

Moses was angry at him

And said:

 

“Why have you

Brought this trouble

On your servant?

 

What have I done

To displease you

That you put the burden

Of all these people on me?

 

……..

 

Where can I get meat

For all these people

They keep wailing on me,

“Give us meat to eat”                                                           Numbers 11:11-13

 

Moses told God

How he felt

The Lord answered Moses

By sending his people meat to eat

 

So if

You are angry at God

About something

Tell him how you feel

 

The Lord

Wants to hear it

He wants to know

How you feel

Even if he doesn’t agree

 

The Lord is

“Slow to anger

And abounding in love”

 

Robert P. Wallman

12-16-12 and 2-17-2023

 

Ps        *  the meat that God sent brought with it a severe plague-but this was because

               God was angry with his people and had continued to ask for unnecessary things

               They were NOT satisfied with the manna God had previously supplied them                    

               With-much like us and our materialism in today’s world

 

 

4-12-2019

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