Anger is the belief that you have been wronged and you believe that you must act to right the wrong and bring the evildoer to justice. Anger assumes that you have the right and responsibility to sit in judgment on another. Anger denies that God will act in justice. Yet we pray that God would forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Does our forgiveness have a limit? Are we willing to suffer great indignity and humiliation for the Name of Christ? Are we willing to endure with the sins of others as Christ has patiently and mercifully dealt with us? Seeking retribution from those who have sinned against us is immediately a denial that Christ has mercifully not held our sins against us and dealt with us according to His great mercy by spilling His Blood and paying for our sins. God has held nothing against you. Be merciful just as you desire your heavenly Father be merciful to you. Come. Taste and see the boundless mercy of your God and Savior that His mercy may flow forth from you to all who sin against you.
Pastor Ulmer
