Saturday, 5 March 2011

The Concept of Rage

There are many attributes in people that we tend to admire. Righteousness, what an attribute that God can use for His kingdom! Sacrificial, graceful, temperate, wise, just, gentle, peaceable, the list goes on and on. Many of these attributes have been on my mind since I became a Christian, but recently God made me focus on something much different: the Concept of Rage.

You see, I dealt with rage from the time I was young, and upon deciding to follow Christ with my whole life, began to suppress it. Surely rage was not a thing which any follower of Christ should keep in his heart? A man must be a willing servant of Christ. Then comes the problem of sin. How does God view evil? Throughout history God has crushed and obliterated sin with a mighty hand. A quick reading from Genesis through Judges would be enough proof for anyone that God does not view sin lightly.

In saying these things, I am primarily speaking to the men. For it is the men who should feel Rage when sin is brought before them. An inventory of society can quickly show what the men within it feel about sin. When adultery is prominent, divorce is idolized, gender is neutralized and abortion is a necessary consequence of freedom, those men who follow diligently after Christ should feel Rage. By Rage I do not mean a desperate need for revenge or mindset which seeks blood from the ungodly, but rather a healthy dose of righteous anger. Surely Christians should stand and act to turn societies over to Christ, and in order to do this, men must learn to act like men and learn to fight. You cannot fight if you do not view sin in the light you should, the way that God does, with Rage.

Soli Deo Gloria