Furloughed after years of faithful service to your airline? Mad at God about it, maybe? He doesn’t deserve it but maybe, just maybe, He also doesn’t take it personally. Our God is not insecure.
Wrath is not the response of God to men like Job, Jeremiah, and some of the bitterer psalmists, all of whom voice their negative feelings to God freely and apparently without the fear of a sudden lightning bolt in their direction.
In Job’s case one of his infamous “counselors” asks him in chapter 33, verse 13 “why do you complain against God?” (NAS) and at least one translation renders the word “complain” as “rage”.
Yet God does not destroy Job for his anger, perhaps because He gives grace to those who, like Job, are in great pain.
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born. Job 3:1 (NLV)
