March 27, 2011: Smashing Their Teeth – Michael Hidalgo

Have you ever been hurt by another person? Have you ever wanted to see harm come to them? Have you wanted to, in the end, be the one who is right while your enemies stand vanquished? If you said “Yes” to any of these things you are not alone. There are times in these Psalms where it seems that anger and rage are written down and directed toward God.

So what do we do with that? It seems that when we get angry at someone and want to punch them in the face, see them hurt, see them pay – that we run and say to ourselves, “This is not good!” But the Psalter seems to be in the place of saying, “God this is where I am.” The first step toward moving past anger is to sit in the anger. And the safest place to sit in the anger is  before God and with God – because he can handle it.