People Are Angry: This is Why the Gospel is Given

One of the many things people struggle with is anger. I don't mean the short emotional outbursts you experience when someone does something really annoying to you.

I am talking about the anger that builds from many years of being ignored by a person you expect love from. The one that comes from an abusive or absent parent, sibling or guardian. The one that comes from the feeling of forced detachment from motherly or fatherly love.

Few people notice this anger. Few even attempt to reflect on it. They simply go out to undo it with the whole of their lives, committing to a soul-wrenching mission that leaves them in a living-dead state.

Ever seen fighters?

There are people who fight heart-and-soul for wealth, recognition, power, relationships, land, women, men, courses they claim to really care about and sometimes, love.

You look at how committed they are to the fight, you may think they are fighting for something, yet, in reality they are fighting WITH something.

Look at the boxing champions like Mike Tyson. What do you read from their fights? Don't you see anger? Yet you are sure they have nothing really personal with the person they are facing in the ring.

Well, I chose boxing because, apart from wars between nations, it best represents a case where people engage in a deadly fight without having personally disagreed.

The point is, many people have deep seated anger that they are mostly unaware of, and they don't know how much this anger controls them.

The anger kills their very humanity and they go out on a fighting spree. They fight for/about feminism, about patriarchy, about racism, about so many things which they consider worthy courses. All these are sideshows.

Deep down, they are hiding some anger, which if resolved, they would just be easy people, loving and very loveable.

Unfortunately, you realize these people have trouble with trust and they cannot handle relationships. They are willing to bring down everything they have ever built just to prove a point.

When dealing with such a person, you will notice they are utilitarian in attitude. Everything in their lives is a weapon. Even the innocent Bible knowledge isn't safe in their hands, for they will use it to fight fellow humans instead of edifying people's souls.

This anger can cost you big, deep and valuable connections. It can make you very superficial in relationships.

It also breeds fear. Fear of being poor, fear of being unwanted, fear of being rejected, fear of looking unattractive, fear of losing control (anxiety), etc.

Such people are mostly insecure, and sometimes experience deep loneliness, even when in company of friends.

Such fear can make a person go on a spending spree. They buy expensive things to look rich and get recognition. For ladies, they will go out and do the unthinkable on their bodies to look attractive, or just get attention.

For men, it will be about looking muscular, drinking expensive whine, driving sleek cars, etc. These are not bad things. But in the hands of angry people, they are a weapon. They are in war. They are in prison. They have lost their soul.

One needs grace to go into an honest reflection about this anger and think to overcome it. This, I think, is the reason why the Gospel is given.

Christ says, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to SET AT LIBERTY THEM THAT ARE BRUISED..." (Luke 4:18, KJV).

Healing means elimination of broken tissues and creation of new ones that can function properly. The Gospel not only undoes what evil has done but it also creates new things.

The Gospel is not given to make bad people good. The Gospel is given to make dead people alive.