Excerpt From the UCC Daily Devotional, June 7, 2021, by Tina Villa
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For we are consumed by your anger; by your wrath we are overwhelmed. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance. – Psalm 90:7-8 (NRSV)
Does God get mad? It depends who you ask. Some say, “No, never.” For them, God is benevolent, always. When good things happen, it’s thanks to God. When bad things happen, it’s something else, usually unspecified … maybe global warming? We are left to wonder. Others say God does indeed get mad and bad things happening are God’s punishments. This view gets tricky whenever there’s a natural disaster: what did all those innocent children washed away by the tsunami do to make God mad? We’re still wondering.
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The Bible is full of people who don’t know what to believe, who change their minds, who start and stop believing. When you read the Bible with your mind not made up, you find real people in there – people you can learn from. But you have to read their stories without your mind made up, or else all you’ll learn is what you already think you know.
Prayer
Dear God, let me live today without my mind made up about every last little thing.
