It was nothing. Nothing significant. Nothing earthshaking. Nothing. But it mattered to me. I missed an easy pitch shot while playing a par five yesterday. My drive from the tee box was nearly perfect, my second shot with a fairway wood was equally good. My ball was 60 yards off the green. A nice pitch shot and I'm putting for birdie or par.
But I skulled the pitch shot. My ball dribbled less than ten embarrassing yards, stopped, and stared at me as if to say, "You dummy!"
I slammed the leading edge of my pitching wedge into the ground! "Damn! Any golfer worth their salt can make that shot!"
Anger is a hard taskmaster. Without warning it bubbles out of my soul like hot oil. No one was scorched. It was over in minutes. But it didn't improve my game or reduce my score. I couldn't take the shot over. What was done was done. I had to live with it.
Maybe I think I'm a better golfer than I am? Maybe I hold myself to a higher expectations than I have the right to? I seldom practice. I haven't sought help from a PGA professional. I play and repeat the same mistakes over and over and over. Yet a bad shot angers me.
Much of life is like that. We don't put in the time or discipline but we expect good results. We don't spend a real time with God but we expect God to show up and take care of us. I guess we're spiritual duffers. A lucky shot now and then, but fortunate to break 100.
Those who enter into Christ's being here for us no longer have to live under a continuous low-lying cloud. A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death (Rom. 8:1,2, The Message).
Unrighteous anger finds its match in Him.
AMERICAN BARBARISM
ReplyDelete"Dear is in the eyes of the Lord's death his saints." (Psalm 116.15)
In recent days, sad news reached the United States and Germany.
In an action of barbarism, a man went to a Baptist church in Marevellous, Illinois, and began firing at the pastor Fred Winters who was preaching in the cult, killing him and wounding two people. The murderer was arrested by the parishioners who were able to reduce it.
Almost a few days later there was another barbarism in Alabama. A man murderer among relatives of 10 people, men, women and children, made a tour of several sites, after being cornered by police, he committed suicide.
But barbarism also transcend borders. In Germany, a couple of 17 years, emulating other suicide Americans entered the armed institute where I studied and killed 13 students among them teachers, in their flight killed two more people, then engage in shootout with police youth suicide was shot in the head.
These facts, which are not the only ones that occur in the United States or Europe, seem to indicate that there is a culture of murder among the people of the northern hemisphere.
On August 12, 2007 in Neosho, Missouri, a man killed a pastor and two worshipers in the cult. There is a history of mass killings of students in Finland in 2008 and Canada in 2006.
Given these facts, the U.S. government, and evangelical churches have done nothing to achieve reverse this situation, which has been happening since long atrás.
I am Christian and express my indignation and my anger against the American evangelical churches that are enclosed in their spiritual bubbles do not realize the harsh reality is happening around them.
How many more must die pastors to the churches just do something to prevent these deaths? How many young students and children have to die to protect the churches decide deranged people?
The Christian life consists not only make social life, and walks. The Christian life is to do something for our society that is crumbling.
Work is not only the state and its institutions to ensure the safety of society, work is also of the church. If that does not understand the American church then they are at the bottom of the sea to fish and evangelicen. Genuine Christians, perhaps in another country, take charge of evangelizing American society.
Why do not intend to make the church a community united in its campaign to disarm the families who have guns?
Why not start with themselves Christians kept their weapons? For a Christian who wants a gun? To remove the evil spirits?
Do not be surprised if this church worsen with the passage of days.
Still time to prevent future massacres.
Do not make the blood of those holy brethren who gave their lives for the church has been spilled in vain