Eleventh Day of Lent - Rage

Rage N Fury by ArtSEA1 
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But Naaman was furious and went away and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.’ Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.  Kings 5:11-12

Rage is uncontrolled anger.  Anger is an emotion that can be justified, as all emotions can.  Rage is red hot.  Like lava, it can burn the mountain and all that surrounds it. 

In Ramallah they have 'a Day of Rage'.  This is full of despair and helplessness.  Tragically 'rage' is for all times.  The horror of 'The Holocaust' revealed the depth of human depravity, its satanic presence lurks just over the cliff-edge we walk along in life. We have all dabbled in holocaust.

Naaman was furious with God for not healing him how he thought he deserved to be healed.  How often we define how God should be and what God should be doing.  It's not like that.  Let's start for the point that we do not have a say in how God should be.

PRAYER:  May I see you more clearly and love you more dearly.