One God Jesus

And so the third and penultimate instalment on anger as I was saying in the last post anger can especially in Christians be caused by a lack of understanding or a dislike of something, the example I gave being the death of Uzzah.Mystery is not where we know nothing about something but is when we can see we don’t know everything about something. God doesn’t download all the secrets of the universe to someone the minute they become a Christian. One of the big challenges of being a Christian is those awkward questions from newer Christians or unsaved friends, one of the most liberating and helpful things we can say when faced with such a question and we don’t know the answer is I don’t know. The universe will not explode if we concede that we do not understand everything, all of us have some mystery in our relationship with God. If I were to ask you to explain why you’re trusting God and what you have figured out and what you haven’t it might be that you have few words to articulate a response, but your trusting him anyway even though there might be some anger that sits in your lives. Again anger is not wrong, lets ask God to help us to deal with it and avoid moving into bitterness.

Secondly if we are stuck lets make sure we respond and don’t just react, David reacted that day 2 Sam 9-10

Here is how David reacted that day, I am done with this fed up with the idea of trying to get the ark home it is over. Some of us live our lives in reaction rather than response much of the time, I have a gift of being a reactionary, it is a rather dubious gift!

Finally lets pick up what we’re tempted to throw away. Incredibly for 3 months David was willing to not bother about the Ark of the Covenant and the he sees the blessing upon Obed-Edom 2 Sam 12 After 12 weeks of reacting David moves to action and does something.

Your credit card bill will not be sorted by sticking it in a drawer, it won’t go away. The marriage won’t be sorted simply by hoping things will get better, it might just be that there is action that needs to be taken. One of the greatest perils is that we throw God away, God was not in the box that was the Ark of the Covenant, we know you can’t put God in a box. Incredibly David is almost willing to disregard that which represented God, Why is Obed-Edom being blessed? Because of the symbol of the presence of God in his home. David almost discarded this symbol that represented Gods presence amongst his people.