Anger: When Your Back Is Against the Wall
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Cornered, overwhelmed, powerless, exhausted and angry.
Cornered, overwhelmed, powerless, exhausted and angry.
The Four Stages of Back-Against-The-Wall Anger (God-lovers)
The Four Stages of Back-Against-The-Wall Anger (God-lovers)
A. The Mourner: Behold God’s Judgment
A. The Mourner: Behold God’s Judgment
O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
They have left the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.
They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
We are objects of contempt to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us.
B. The Sufferer: Feeling God’s Anger
B. The Sufferer: Feeling God’s Anger
How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not call on your name;
for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
Do not hold against us the sins of past generations; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.
Help us, God our Savior, for the glory of your name; deliver us and forgive our sins for your name’s sake.
C. The Intercessor: Pleading For God’s Help
C. The Intercessor: Pleading For God’s Help
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.
May the groans of the prisoners come before you; with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.
D. The Worshiper: Promising To Praise God
D. The Worshiper: Promising To Praise God
Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.
Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you forever; from generation to generation we will proclaim your praise.
Reminder: His wrath poured out here
Reminder: His wrath poured out here
From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”
Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”
When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
