Isaiah 12:1 And in that day you will say: “O Lord, I will praise You; Though You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me. 2 Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation.’ “

Truth be told, I don’t like people, and many of them don’t like me (keep reading LOL). Would you be brave enough to tell the truth and make that statement? If you really dig deep, you will see the level our nation is divided at, the angst you feel towards humanity. From the level of evil displayed, the political divided views, the religion’s differences, the selfishness on an incredible scale, the lack of moral character, the aggressive state of simple daily tasks such as driving or shopping, the social media posts that anger…..well, I will stop there since that is why many don’t like me. 🙂 We at our core, in our sin, struggle with not having anger issues in daily life. It is the world we live in, the sin we live in, the need for God to forgive us each day.

Romans 5:6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. The depth of that passage demands more than this short 1MM, but we are those ungodly Christ died for. We are those that today still harbor angst in our hearts, still some battle anger at elevated levels, the level of the battle of good and evil that is within us all. There are still those today that deny Jesus Christ, or that warp their views and religions of him, denying deity and belittling him from God to many number of things and ideals. There are those that hate him, but Jesus did not die for just a chosen few, he died for all that would choose him. He died for the sinner and the saint, even the example of the thieves on the Cross. You have done nothing that Jesus Christ will not forgive, nothing you have ever done exceeds or eliminates what Jesus Christ died for you to cover your sins with his blood to a Holy God. Sadly the worldly saints feel as though if they live their lives as good people, they will get to Heaven on their good deeds, while in reality denying what Jesus did for them. There will be many good saints in Hell, never grasping John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. “The two biggest lies our cultures believes today are that we are good people and that, because God is loving, he will not punish sin.” Francis Chan.

I get every bit as angry as you at my fellow human being. I get so mad daily, I say or post things I regret. I am appalled at the level of division over politics, and the victories Satan has in them. I am amazed at the religious people that act and post things that don’t reflect Christ. Hypocrisy was one of my earliest struggles even as a child in faith, and now the same as an adult trying to cope with this world, and the struggles of my own sins. But, I am nothing…..without love.

1 Corinthians 13:1-8 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.