Sequential Logic in Creation
Is there any sense in wrath?
Chapter 11
I use the word wrath on purpose for this particular word the Bibles uses in conjunction with God. God admonishes to cease from wrath yet on many occasions He pours His wrath out. I focus my interest on the root of anger; what is it? Do we need it? What does it do?
Cain was the first one showing this destructive force of wrath.
What is wrath?
▪ Wrath is an emotion that cane be compared to a flaring fire.
▪ When and why does it ignite?
▪ The root cause is selfishness.
▪ When self does not get what it sets its mind on it agitates certain emotions
▪ Why we call these emotions wrong?
▪ Because they hurt and sometimes destroy life
▪ But can wrath be productive? Can it be an even propelling force?
Yes indeed, it is a propelling force. Look how God smartly made it all. Wrath can be compared to volcanic lava that bursts out of a very 'emotional' crater. Does it destroy life? Yes, but then it is also used to create new life.
Analysis
Self and selfishness, ego and self-orientation, self-preservation and all the likes, are neither bad nor good. We have it and we live with it. The problem, however, is not what we are or what we possess, but rather how we handle it.
From an example of faith, we can understand wrath. An atheist is viewed as someone that doubts, an unbeliever, but that is plainly impossible for such thing does not even exist. One must believe in something just to live, even asking for a piece of bread because of hunger is already one form of faith, believing that one will receive after asking, otherwise one would not ask in the first place. A real atheist could never transact, read a newspaper or learn anything at school without believing the teacher; so we talk about singling God and the Bible out in a pool of many beliefs, yet these beliefs are existent, but often misdirected and in a way locked up in a box of science or some incomplete understanding.
So there is faith, but its location is misplaced and imprisoned in some form of philosophy.
One has the choice not to believe in God, and that is a personal prerogative, I see it as plain hate against the Maker of all life. I do not have to hate something I do not grasp. I do not have to permit my feelings to dictate my mind how it should think. The same is with wrath - the energy of life itself - it must be there and it cannot be extinguished for once it goes out life goes with it.
I have the choice to use wrath against God or towards Him, I can use the energy of anger, not hate, yet direct it to the source of all life. I know that even God wants us to be angry even with Him yet talk with Him, He wants this emotion for He is like that too.
When God does not get from us that, which belongs to Him, He is then wrathful and might say something along these lines, 'I have given them too much will-power and freedom.' But on the other hand He reasons and says, 'but if I would program them like robots they would have never gotten angry and would have no expression.' 'I want their expressions of love, praise and adoration, I want their passion and zeal; I want their fiery love.'
Love can be propelled by the root force we call wrath, so can every other sublime emotion, but if we express only the root-force, which is just wrath we destroy life.
God is exactly that powerhouse, but controlled. God did not choose indecisive people, but a bunch of complainers, people loaded with wrath, this wrath can be converted into a fiery love. Fire can destroy, but it also ignites turbines, runs trains, cars and flies airplanes in the sky; it gives us warmth in winter, cooks our meals, and heats up our bath water. That is what wrath does, but in a controlled therefore beneficial manner.
Mercy, on the other hand cannot be passive, otherwise it is no mercy. It must give and nurture, it converts the opposite-wrath and hate-into a blessed benefit, too much benefit would also overwhelm the world, and too much hate would destroy it.
In the midst of wars and destructions we have learned to control it, we play politics, sports, compete in economics and performing arts. We are being bombarded with information through electronic media being entertained at the same time. We have made for ourselves little small windows too look through, television, and computer screens, we are organized and tolerant and in this 'orderly chaos' we have lost any sense of the truth, which does not compromise or deflect. In the midst of the profit-making mentality, we see no value in truth; it is not prized above the financial gain and the passing away glory of fame. Where are we going and where will we arrive?
Wars come and go monarchs too and their fame vanishes, but the desire to make a dent in people's minds is so overwhelming that one is content to exit this world with his or her name just written in the annals of history. Evidently, the only glory that is being cherished is the earthly one. The price of the truth is not valued at all, because it makes no sense on this earth except in the world of religion... perhaps.
The purpose of writing is to awaken the glory of eternity and set before you the true price, for just as a treasure hunt would excite our senses, although we do not see or touch it yet the sense of adventure prods us to find it.
Discovering the origins of nonsense is like cutting a trail through a thick bush that leads to the location of some fantastic treasure we want to lay our hands on, and once that trail is cut one will forget the labor. "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind. [Isaiah 65:17]