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Romans 12:15 NKJV

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

Why God?

Will we be angry at God or angry with God?

Ephesians 4:26 (NKJV)

“Be angry, and do not sin”

Mark 3:5 NKJV

And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.

To not get angry enough to do justice and mercy in the sight of evil – that is a sin.

Job 1:13–19 NKJV

Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house; and a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, when the Sabeans raided them and took them away—indeed they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!” While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell you!” While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels and took them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!” While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, and suddenly a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Job 1:1 NKJV

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.

Job 1:8 NKJV

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?”

Job 1:11 NKJV

But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!”

Tunnel vision focused on our expectations of God’s love.

Anger usually always results when our expectations do not match our reality.

Job 5:7 NKJV

Yet man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

John 16:33 (NIV84)

“In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

Tunnel vision focused on our good works and a belief God owes us something different than we have received.

Anger usually always results when someone owes us something.

Job 1:20–21 (NKJV)

Then Job ... fell to the ground and worshiped.

And he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Psalm 22:1 NKJV

My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning?