9 Why Engaging Your Story Requires Anger at God
The Place We Find Ourselves
Adam Young
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes, “the place we find ourselves” is a place of anger at God. Some of us grew up in Christian sub-cultures in which anger at God was not allowed. If you were angry at God for too long, you had a sense that there was something wrong with you. As a result, many Christians feel ashamed if they find themselves angry at God. However, if you engage the heartache and pain of your story, there will inevitably be times where you are angry at God. Sooner or later, if you are emotionally honest, you will find yourself angry at your Creator.
Have you ever just poured out your anger, before editing your words? The Bible, in multiple places and especially the book of Job, invites us to do exactly this because when we finally express our unedited anger fully to God, he is able to address our hearts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and this is episode nine |
| 0:07.9 | titled Why engaging your story requires anger at God |
| 0:13.3 | This is an important topic if you're living an honest life. I don't know how you can escape feeling anger at God |
| 0:22.0 | So let's dive straight in. Thank you so much for listening |
| 0:26.3 | One of the places we find ourselves is the place of anger |
| 0:32.2 | We often find ourselves in a place of being angry |
| 0:36.2 | Actually, that's only true for some of us |
| 0:38.6 | Others of us have grown up in Christian cultures in which it was flat out wrong to feel anger at God |
| 0:45.6 | It was wrong to ever feel abandoned by God or to ever feel a sense of disappointment in God |
| 0:52.6 | And so if we ever |
| 0:54.3 | Found ourselves feeling even the littlest bit of abandonment by God or anger at God or disappointment in God |
| 1:01.5 | We would promptly nip that feeling in the bud because we believed it was somehow ungodly or wrong to feel it |
| 1:09.6 | many Christians |
| 1:11.4 | Feel ashamed of their of the real anger that they have at God buried underneath the surface |
| 1:17.8 | They feel ashamed of any feelings of abandonment by God |
| 1:23.3 | You may be terrified of the thought of feeling angry at God just feeling it much less expressing it |
| 1:31.8 | But if you have somehow overcome the nonsense that it's somehow ungodly or prideful |
| 1:39.0 | To be angry at God then |
| 1:41.3 | The anger that actually resides in your heart will have the freedom to bubble up |
| 1:46.6 | And as you engage the heartache and the pain of your story |
| 1:51.1 | There will invariably be times |
| 1:54.4 | When you do feel abandoned by God and that generates some sense of anger |
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