Are You Angry with God?

Today’s message is based on Ruth 1:19-22 and is titled “Are You Angry With God?”

Are you angry with God? There are perhaps a few here today who would say, "Yes, I am. I am angry with God." Probably more of us would say, "No, I'm not angry with God. I know better than to be angry with God." But is that really accurate? I would suggest to you that anger with God is in a very real sense, an inevitable consequence of living in a fallen world filled with suffering and pain and disappointment with a darkened mind which we as believers, even though the Lord has given us eyes to see and ears to hear and a new heart, we still have the old man and the old man interprets things wrongly and so when the old man, our old sin nature looks at our lives, when we encounter disappointments, when we encounter tragic circumstances, unexpected delays, unexpected changes of plans, the natural bent of the fallen nature is to be angry and I would suggest to you that we're angry often. It's kind of a natural thing. I mean, when things don't go our way, the first tendency is anger and so how do you overcome that as a Christian. That's what we're going to talk about. How do you put off anger and put on joyful submission to the Lord.