Waves of God's Anger
It is not good to be around angry people all of the time. I feel so sorry for the ladies who tell me that their husbands are angry with them and complaining about everything all the time. The anger just drains us of the joy we need to live well, and it causes us to lose hope that things will ever get better for us or for the angry ones. It is a miserable state of being. However, it is not as bad as having God's anger on us all of the time. The psalmist was lamenting the fact that God was angry with His people for all of their sins. He was crying out to God to hear his prayer and take away the anger. (Psalm 88:7) He told the Lord that His anger was weighing him down. Wave after wave of anger was coming upon him, and he was engulfed in God's anger. I imagine the psalmist felt like he was drowning in God's anger. I remember feeling like I was going to drown in water when I was younger, so this word picture speaks volumes to me. I pray it will speak to us today. As believers, ...