Monster Inside Me

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Are you familiar with the story of Absalom, Amnon and Tamar? 

In 2 Samuel 13, Absalom and Tamar were brother and sister. Amnon was Tamar's half brother. Amnon fell in love with Tamar and tricked her into coming in to his bedroom where he raped her. Tamar was very upset and ashamed, and told her brother Absalom what had happened. 2 Samuel 13:22 says "Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad; he hated Amnon, because he had disgraced his sister Tamar." 

Now clearly, Absalom was well in his right to hate Amnon and be furious with him. His anger was completely legitimate! But how he handled it was the problem. Instead of confronting Amnon and talking to him about it, Absalom stewed in his anger and hate for two whole years. During those two years, he was planning how to murder Amnon. 

How we respond to anger, even legitimate anger, is important! If you give anger and rage a place to live inside of you, you give it the ability to take root. Letting anger get too comfortable will allow it to take over and anger will choke out joy! It will start to destroy all positive aspects of your life if you let the anger fester inside your heart too long. Anger will become a monster inside of you that you may lose control over.

Romans 12:19
Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, 
"Vengeance is mine, I will repay" says the Lord. 

It is not up to us to judge and decide who lives and dies. Justice is to be left up to God to deliver.
We have to be on the side of justice and not rage.

This page was inspired by a recent sermon I heard from Pastor Mike Hilson titled "Monster In Me". You can find the link to his online sermon HERE.


xoxo,
Stephanie Gammon
IG: @faith.and.creativity

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