Reflections

The cause of Anger

As we submit ourselves to the rules of the Kingdom-that of joyful submission to all God's commands, and an eager acceptance of His perfect will-we discover that those rules work for us in powerful and positive ways. But what happens if we resist this law of the Kingdom? We then have to face the consequences, and those consequences find their expression in anger and impatience.

Have you ever considered what it is that drives Christians to be angry and impatience? It happens whenever we lose sight of the fact that all things work together to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose (Rom.8:28). Once we become aware of the fact that as heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ,, we are God's personal property and that He will never allow anything to happen to us unless He can use it for good, this conviction becomes the Cosmic Loom on which all of live is woven. If we do not surrender to this fact then we will respond to life in negative ways, by becoming angry, frustrated and impatient.

A pastor had his heart set on a certain appointment and when he did not get it, his wife became embittered and ill, and died shortly afterwards. He himself became so spiritually upset that he left the ministry. Resentment  and bitterness combined to kill the body of one, and the ministry of the other. When we respond to life with a simple trust that God will never allow anything to happen to us that will not work out for our good, then anger and impatience will disappear from our hearts as surely as the morning mists are dissolved by the rays of the rising sun.