Be Angry

I have found that sometimes i give up on things. Like working out or getting good at ping pong or writting letters. I somehow become apathetic towards things like this. Sometimes i feel apathetic towards my spiritual life too. I normally have strong feelings and emotions regarding what path God is taking me down but every once in awhile it all drifts away as i begin to feel nothing.

I think is the most dangerous place for a person to be.

Note that i say person and not Christian. Because people have emotions that become vital to be expressed. Humanity has been created to be affectionate beings. This doesn't just pertain to the Christian "way-of-life". Actually, i think Christians are more prone to take this level of apathy to a scarier place. We let apathy in and pretend it's not there.

This is like suppressing a cough when you are sick in an attempt to convince others that you are fine. There is no logic in it and yet i can promise you that each follower of Christ has fallen to this at some point. I feel like a Christian campus is a cesspool of supressed coughs.

I guess what i am saying is that most Christians think that it is totally inappropriate to be angry. This ticks me off and makes me want to punch a wall.

I have found that i become much closer to God when i am up in His face yelling at Him. Like in Genesis when Jacob and God were wrestling for hours and hours, God used that time to truly empower and speak to Jacob about his calling and who he was as a man.

For God's and your own sake, get over what you have learned about political correctness and get angry at things that you find wrong and take them straight to God. Be angry about fast-food, or hippies, or America, or denominations, or things in the bible, or rich people, or whatever it is that you seriously think is wrong. You may be wrong and you may be right but at least you are passionate about something. And when you take these things to God He will show you who you are and affirm you in the direction that you are called to go.

Don't lose sight in the Chirstian fog. Remember that you are created in the image of someone who hates and despises evil and darkness. Let him show you what to love and what to hate. Just keep wrestling with the big guy.

Love, Frank