Saturday, March 04, 2006
Through Anger To Repentance
Brad Hightower is talking about the process of sanctification and looks at real repentance as compared to the "therpeutic model for recovery." Frankly, the post is a bit psycho-babbly for my particular taste, but at its heart I think there are some great ideas.
What I really like here is the idea of using anger as a guide to genuine self-discovery. When we are angry unjustly, which most anger is, it is a result of our own self-absorption and the perception that we have been wronged, when, in fact, we are in the wrong.
What a great confessional tool. Anger. Confession as the reponse to unjust anger. What a great idea.
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We now are not only aware of our anger, but now we come to realize our actual character defects and heart sins that made us self-centered and was the actual cause of our frustration with life as it comes to us. For some of us, this frustration based in sin and fear created such unhappiness and resentment that we medicated our lack of peace with compulsive behaviors like TV watching or sex or alcohol. For some we are compulsive gossips or talkers in general because we cannot control our uneasiness about life. All of this is driven by our self-centeredness and our lack of care for our inner person.The fact that self-denial is the road to contentment, is opposed to self-agrandizment, is the key difference between Christianity and worldly models. But that is old hat on this blog - good, but not news.
What I really like here is the idea of using anger as a guide to genuine self-discovery. When we are angry unjustly, which most anger is, it is a result of our own self-absorption and the perception that we have been wronged, when, in fact, we are in the wrong.
What a great confessional tool. Anger. Confession as the reponse to unjust anger. What a great idea.
Related Tags: anger, confession, repentance
