Don’t Take It Out On Me!
Proverbs 15:18 (Amplified Bible)
18A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger appeases contention.
One of the most mind boggling things is that I have experienced in my forty six years of life is when people are mad at someone else or they are mad at themselves and they proceed to go off on you for what would appear to be no apparent. Well there is a reason and there is a problem, but none of it has anything to do with us! In most cases there is a level of anger seething within that is causing them to lash out irrationally and snapping at people becoming cruel and unkind; say things that make no sense nor do they fit the circumstance in which all find themselves. Why do we feel it is okay to take our anger issues out on others? We have convinced ourselves that it is better to sound off on someone else than to deal with our own issues of anger and to find its root and allow God to deal with us and that emotion that can lead us to a place of sin.
Imagine for one minute if God was mad at someone in another state and proceeded to treat you with contempt and disrespect as we do to others? How would it make us feel, if we were to receive the reaction meant for another? It is ironic that the behavior we would hate to befall us would be the behavior we would bestow not just on others but on God as well. We take our issues of anger out on each other and God, lashing out irrationally hoping to relieve what has apparently gone wrong within us. We want everyone to feel pain because we are in pain. We want everyone to be in a place of misery and being conflicted as we are. Many of us would rather it be anyone or, everyone else than to accept the fact that we have anger issues, stemming from our inability to deal with issues in our own lives, or people who have treated us poorly. We have no right to treat others and definitely not God poorly because we don’t want to deal with us… The Bible says that we are to be angry and sin not, do we think for one minute being mean, unkind, unjust, vengeful, wrathful and ungodly is being without sin? We seem to have it twisted that this behavior is acceptable in God’s sight, but it is not.
We have to begin to understand that anger is a normal emotion, and it is an emotion that God created and possesses Himself, but it is not an excuse or a pass to treat people with such distain and discord. We need to shine the light on the inside of us and ensure that all of that anger that we have allowed to fester is not taking root in the very essence and core of personality and causing us to take our issues out on people or on God. When we can allow God to help us to see what is really going on within us it keeps contention down within ourselves and with others. But when we allow anger to settle in and become our friend, we can become hateful and mean, surly even without cause or provocation. Anger is meant as a response to injustice or sin, not a lifestyle that we immerse ourselves within and get comfortable using as a shield and a cover up to coming face to face with us and our bruises, scars and abuses. Anger is not meant to be turned inward to again be turned outward. We need to grow up spiritually, emotionally and mentally in order for us to handle our moments of anger in a way that pleases God and does not provoke us to sin!
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