How to Aim Your Anger in the Right Direction:
'God, why did you let this happen to me?'
The death of a spouse, the betrayal of a friend,
and the disability of a child are often so painful
that we want to blame God.
We all have times of anger, disappointment, and
frustration. But when we aim that anger at God, we
end up feeling empty, frustrated, and lost.
Our anger can either destroy us with self-pity, or
God can use it to make us joyful.
The key is to aim the anger in the right
direction. To do this, we need to 1) Learn to be
transparent before the Lord. 2) Complain to the
Lord in the way that Bible characters did. 3)
Turn despair Godward.
The topics of anger and
bitterness are issues that author, Joni Eareckson
Tada, can speak to personally: A diving accident
in 1967, when she was 17, left her a quadriplegic.
She has lived 45 years in a wheelchair and she has
experienced her share of ups and downs. "But," she
says, 'oh, the difference the grace of God has
made in my life.'
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