Healing from Anger (8 of 9)
Series: God Talk: Conservation Through the Psalms
Scott Maze
Psalm 69
The Psalms are inspired by God and therefore meant to instruct us how to think about God and the entire world. On the other hand, the Psalms are poems or songs and are meant to awaken and shape our feelings about God and the world. We have focused in the previous messages on the feelings of spiritual depression in Psalm 38 and guilt in Psalm 51. Today, we focus on the emotion of anger, or more specifically the desire for retaliation or vengeance. It seems that anger is on the rise in recent days. We seen some high-profile outbursts. Tennis star, Serena Williams, threatened to stuff a fuzzy tennis ball down the throat of a linesmen because of what she perceived was a bad call. Rapper Kanye West bizarre behavior at the MTV's Video Music Awards where he snatched the microphone from pop-country singer Taylor Swift as she accepted her award for Best Female Video. West's announcement that the award should have gone to Beyoncé instead has not only made headlines but even received a reaction from President Barack Obama. Lastly, Representative Joe Wilson famously burst into the President's speech on health care with the words, ''You lie!'' Many across the country are speculating about what's wrong with our collective impulse control.
One of the mightiest emotions we have inside of us is our anger. We feel intense anger when something horribly wrong or unjust is done, say the sexual abuse of a child, or some blatant racial discrimination, or your wife has betrayed marriage vows and committed adultery with another person.
''You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you.?20 Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.?21 They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
22 Let their own table before them become ...
Series: God Talk: Conservation Through the Psalms
Scott Maze
Psalm 69
The Psalms are inspired by God and therefore meant to instruct us how to think about God and the entire world. On the other hand, the Psalms are poems or songs and are meant to awaken and shape our feelings about God and the world. We have focused in the previous messages on the feelings of spiritual depression in Psalm 38 and guilt in Psalm 51. Today, we focus on the emotion of anger, or more specifically the desire for retaliation or vengeance. It seems that anger is on the rise in recent days. We seen some high-profile outbursts. Tennis star, Serena Williams, threatened to stuff a fuzzy tennis ball down the throat of a linesmen because of what she perceived was a bad call. Rapper Kanye West bizarre behavior at the MTV's Video Music Awards where he snatched the microphone from pop-country singer Taylor Swift as she accepted her award for Best Female Video. West's announcement that the award should have gone to Beyoncé instead has not only made headlines but even received a reaction from President Barack Obama. Lastly, Representative Joe Wilson famously burst into the President's speech on health care with the words, ''You lie!'' Many across the country are speculating about what's wrong with our collective impulse control.
One of the mightiest emotions we have inside of us is our anger. We feel intense anger when something horribly wrong or unjust is done, say the sexual abuse of a child, or some blatant racial discrimination, or your wife has betrayed marriage vows and committed adultery with another person.
''You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you.?20 Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.?21 They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
22 Let their own table before them become ...
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