ohhhh - you make me so mad....

Ever get so mad that you just can't control your self? Ever get so frustrated by things that you act out, perhaps even violently?

Years ago I struggled with anger....and from time to time it rears it's head...When you might ask?
When ever I get so frustrated with the inability to control someone or something else that I feel I have an inherent right to...Where does that inherent right I feel I have come from?

Well, back in the Garden, yes that Garden, the first garden...Satan tempted Eve with something that she was not permitted to have....He twisted her understanding of the boundaries (she wasn't allow to eat, but I don't think touching was a problem) He twisted her reasoning for not having that which seemed pleasing to the eye, and very possibly good for food! He taunted her with the rationalization that it's within her domain, her right, and being withheld unrighteously - bad, bad god!

Once she took, Adam soon followed....once confronted with the transgression, Adam immediately, violently, burst with a frustration that tore a huge rift between all parties.....the woman that YOU gave me!!! - he scolded and blamed everyone else but himself for his selfish, quest for godhood!

gee....is that where that anger comes from....not getting my way? my wanting to be selfish, demanding all others to bow to me....to be my own god?

yep!

Now I'm not talking about when we are angered with injustice - impropriety - or unrighteousness...I'm talking about the anger that causes us to sin...Self Worship - Self Idolatry! The erroneous attitude that says we have the right! we deserve what ever we want at the expense of others, because we are the center of our own universe!

The Anger and violence comes when we hit the wall - because the above statements are soooooo not true! and every selfish, egotistical cell in our body and mind cries against the reality!

We struggle and fight outside of the true God for those things and for control of things we have no right to. Assuming that we can secure them in our own flesh and power of mind or strength. How frail we are and we don't even realize it....How quickly the idol can be cast down and broken into pieces!

Self control, is the only thing we have control over, and that ONLY in Christ - only by the Holy Spirit's power at work in our lives to change our flawed and fallen understandings and to debunk the myths of the garden...

We cannot be gods, we are not gods. There is only ONE God and He will not give His glory to another...The sooner we surrender to that understanding, the more anchored we are in Him and the less frustrated we are with life's inevitable kinks.



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