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. Read the rest of this entry »