Carrie versus Bo. Who wins? It all comes down to who pulls the Vonzell vote.
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How about Kenny Rogers? Tomorrow night, he puts a 30-consecutive scoreless innings streak on the line at the Palace in Dallas against the in-state rival Astros. Yesterday, the Rangers completed a 3-3 road trip to the best teams in the Central, Minnesota and Chicago. The good feeling of Monday night, when the Rangers were 3-1 on the trip, was muted a bit by dropping the final two games in Chicago. With Richard Hidalgo and Kevin Mench beginning to hit, Ranger fans are in desperate need of seeing Michael Young break his month-and-a-half funk.
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Is it just me or do some Christians these days seem overly angry? Sometimes, it seems as though we Christians, in an effort to control situations around us, blow up far too often in anger when things do not go our way.
We are angry at Satan, the prince of this present world, for manipulating circumstances against us. Sometimes, we even get angry at God, questioning "Why?" bad things come our way.
Our anger is not only unjustified, it is flat-out sinful.
I (we) must realize that everything that happens in our lives has first passed through the sieve of God's will. Remember the story of Job? Even though Job's trials didn't find their source in God but in Satan, it was through the sieve of God's will (Satan's inquiry of God to afflict Job as a test of faith) that those trials came his way. Whether the ultimate source is God or Satan, anger is alleviated when I come to realize every circumstance in my life happens as God's express will or an allowance of His will to form deeper, abiding trust in Him.
I must remember there is a God...and I am not Him! I must respond to that reality with acceptance of His will, not anger!
That realization should help us (me) when, for instance, my 15-month old is cutting teeth and extremely fussy. It isn't my role to control her growth and it isn't my place as her daddy to blow up in anger when her fussy-ness impinges on the atmosphere in our home. That realization can help us when others mistreat us and say bad things against us. That realization can help us when we plead in our prayer for God to intervene (according to our will) and the heavens seem silent (according to His will).
It's not a response of anger; it's the simple acceptance of His sweet will that must be revealed in the lives of His disciples.
