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Thursday... It's no fun when someone is angry with you.


Thursday... It's no fun when someone is angry with you.

There was a lady who was really angry at another lady at Starbucks yesterday. Not a fun time. Have you ever felt that God was angry with you? Well, the children of Israel knew he was angry with them. He had done so much for them and they still didn't follow him. That was not a fun time.

Well, Isaiah was given the task of telling them what God was feeling about them but then in Isaiah 12 he tells of what will happen in the day that they come back to God. In verse 1 Isaiah writes, "In that day you will sing: 'I will praise you, O Lord! You were angry with me, but not anymore. Now you comfort me.'" Now that is a great feeling, isn't it? Knowing that someone was really angry with you and it was your fault but then they aren't anymore. A great load is lifted, isn't it? 

He goes on in verse 2. He says, "See, God has come to save me. I will trust in him and not be afraid. The Lord is my strength and my song, he has given me victory." Now that is the way a relationship with God is suppose to work out and it does if we are obeying him and following him.

Let's say, you have a great relationship with your spouse but you blow it. You do something that really hurt them and they are angry with you and you deserve it. It wasn't their fault, it was your fault. Now you can set back and make excuses but in no way does that make a difference. The only way that you are going to be able to diffuse the anger is to really show that you know that you were wrong and that you will repent. In other words, you confess to them that you were wrong and you ask them to forgive you and you tell them that you will do everything you can to not do it again. And that will make all of the difference. 

Now it may take a while for their anger to subside and for you to prove to them that you won't do it again but with God it is an instant happening. You see, he knows if you are really repentant. He knows your heart and he is in the second chance business.

Hebrews 10:17 tells us, "Then he says, 'I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.'" Verse 23 says, "Let us hold tightly to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise."

And then verses 35-36 says, "So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all that he has promised." 

Earlier it says that if you (vs. 26), "deliberately continue sinning", then, verse 31 says, "It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God." We must do everything we can to not have him angry with us. 

And we can. It is not up to him, it is up to us. And there is so much for us if we do. Isaiah 12:2 says, "See, God has come to save me. I will trust in him and not be afraid. The Lord is my strength and my song; he has given me victory." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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