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Is being angry with God normal for Christians?

jeff77

jeff77

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I have often heard Christian men and women say that they have been angry at God at one time or another during their life. Until recently I used to think that I could never be angry with God because He is perfect in every way. I think it could be normal to at least feel a little angry with God because of our human nature and how we at one time have felt angry in the relationship with our parents. However...feeling angry does not mean that I think that God has done anything to purposely make me angry. So what are your thoughts?
 
I never saw the point in being mad at God. I can't think of anything that would cause me to be angry with God.
 
reba said:
I wasted almost 5 years being angry at God... sure didnt do me any good... I was angry at the way He took my Daddy home...
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Did anything good come out of it? Was your relationship with the Lord strengthened?
 
Gary said:
I never saw the point in being mad at God. I can't think of anything that would cause me to be angry with God.
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I used to think the same thing. Still I know logically that there is not point in being angry with God. It is my own flaws that cause it.
 
One time I felt angry at God, or at least perceived it that way, without really understanding why. At the time I was unexplainably depressed, and it lasted about two or three months. I still don't entirely know what that was about, the depression or the anger.
 
My former pastor of 94 years of age still preached 4 different sermons or studies per week to a rather sizable assembly until our LORD took him home. As a young man, angry out looking for an adversary with a strait razor to kill him, the Lord didn't allow that. He began preaching not long after that, and he made the remark one time that if you haven't got mad at God, you hadn't walked very long with Him. He said he had quit preaching many times.

Read the testimonies of the prophets; it seems most of them had grievances. Elijah in 1 Ki 19:14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Jonah of Jon 4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. Jon 4:3 . . it is better for me to die than to live.
Job, that perfect and unrighteous man of Job 1:8, but in Job 3:3 he says: Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

You ain't alone in your sufferings Brother jeff77, God's work in you for your good continues until you're face to face with Jesus. :)
 
Eugene said:
My former pastor of 94 years of age still preached 4 different sermons or studies per week to a rather sizable assembly until our LORD took him home. As a young man, angry out looking for an adversary with a strait razor to kill him, the Lord didn't allow that. He began preaching not long after that, and he made the remark one time that if you haven't got mad at God, you hadn't walked very long with Him. He said he had quit preaching many times.

Read the testimonies of the prophets; it seems most of them had grievances. Elijah in 1 Ki 19:14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Jonah of Jon 4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. Jon 4:3 . . it is better for me to die than to live.
Job, that perfect and unrighteous man of Job 1:8, but in Job 3:3 he says: Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

You ain't alone in your sufferings Brother jeff77, God's work in you for your good continues until you're face to face with Jesus. :)
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Well, I certainly haven't distanced myself from the Lord by being angry. He is on my mind just as much if not more. Still it does not make a whole lot of sense to me.
 
Yes, being angry with God is a temptation from Satan to get us out of love and thereby out of faith. HE is never the problem - we are always the problem; somewhere, somehow, we don't know something and that is the problem, for after all, God said that it our lack of knowledge which causes us to perish.
 
TheCurseoftheRodain said:
Yes, being angry with God is a temptation from Satan to get us out of love and thereby out of faith. HE is never the problem - we are always the problem; somewhere, somehow, we don't know something and that is the problem, for after all, God said that it our lack of knowledge which causes us to perish.
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I believe it is a lack of faith but, also if I did not care much about my relationship with God I would not have any reason to be mad at Him.
 
I have been angry at God. No details necessary, but yes, my walk with God has consisted of every emotion I can think of.
 
jeff77 said:
I believe it is a lack of faith but, also if I did not care much about my relationship with God I would not have any reason to be mad at Him.
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It is sort of like the illustration given us in Isaiah where God says woe to the man that criticizes His Creator - in other words, we ought to let Him tell him what's going on instead of being quick to assign blame anywhere besides with ourselves.
 
I would think a christian would be the last person to be angry at God. I don't get it. It's like an ant getting mad at an elephant.
 
Careful not to judge the notion brother Gary! You might be visited with a trying situation! I've been there too...
 
I don't think you're weird. Maybe just a bit less hot-tempered than some of us.

Anger always stems from hurt. Brokenness begets anger so often. I know that it's ridiculous to be angry at God. But I have been.

I've been angry at not being able to hear back from Him in my time. I've been angry at what seemed to be to be very high standards being set against me. I've been angry that He has drew me and called me to Him but He hasn't for people that I love.

God is not the problem in any of those situations and I know that. It's hard to explain. And infinitely silly.
 
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