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“He is angry at me”, said the distressed woman, “I know he
is.” I asked her how she knew about it. “Because he isn’t
answering my prayers,” she said with sadness in her eyes that
proved the sincerity of her words.
I smiled at her and asked, “Do you think that
you can disturb God enough to make Him angry? Do you think that you
can upset Him so much that He will actually get angry with you?”
She seemed surprised that I could even ask such
questions. Ever since we were young, we were told that if we did not
behave, God would be angry at us. He would be sad and we would ruin
His day.
We never questioned those “teachings”. But
that was when we were kids and think like children. Now that we had
grown up, we need to think as adults, matured adults.
God does not get angry at you when you go off
the straight and narrow path. He doesn’t because He is God and if
you could get Him angry, you would have power over God. If God gets
upset every time somebody sinned, then in a world of six billion
people, He would spend all His time being angry. If I can get you
upset over me, you are disturbed and I am the cause of your
agitation. That is having a measure of power over you.
That cannot happen to God. All of our collective
sins cannot get Him angry because He is above all that. He isn’t
like us humans. He is God, the Almighty, the Master of the Universe.
Sometimes we go overboard to puff ourselves up and make ourselves a
whole lot more than what we are.
God isn’t an emotional wreck whose moods
fluctuate depending on how we behave. He is too great to be swayed
by our misbehaviors. He is God, the Supreme Being. All-powerful,
loving, steady and unchanging, He rules over the vastness of all
that is.
He doesn’t run around punishing us whenever we
walk off and turn our backs on Him. He doesn’t have to. We perform
a very good job punishing ourselves. Our craziness comes back to
haunt us. God does not have to lift a finger to hurt us since we
engage in our own self-destructiveness when we stray.
The words “God is good…all the time” apply
despite our futile efforts to challenge Him.
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