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We all know anger. We get angry when someone cuts us off in traffic. We get angry when our boss passes us over for a promotion. We get angry when our children disobey us. As African American women, our anger feels like it runs deeper: outstretched toward the world for the way we’re perceived and generally treated; toward those closest to us for betraying our deepest confidence; and toward God, for what we feel like He has allowed to happen to us:
God took my mother from me, so I’m angry.
God won’t help me get a better job, so I’m angry.
God didn’t heal me when I asked Him to, so I’m angry.
There are many dimensions to our anger. I know, I pray it out daily. Some of it is righteous, some of it is self-righteous, and some of it is self-pitying. It is all human. When we allow God into our hearts, we allow the Holy Spirit to come in to teach us how to deal with it (John 14:26).
Being angry is human, but we have to learn to take it to Him because it doesn’t produce the righteousness of God (James 1:20).
Turn to this month’s Bible study to learn how to overcome anger against God and meditate on these scriptures:
James 1:19-20
Colossians 3:25
God, help me to overcome my anger to produce in my life the kind of righteousness that You desire.
December 2008
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