Women and anger over injustice, how do we cope? Speaking as a woman, I have to admit that I can get pretty angry over injustice. I say to myself, why isn't God doing something about this, why doesn't He act. I know what I would do... Ladies, cool it. God knows about injustice and He is and will deal with it. I suggest you read the Psalms and for sure Psalm 58. Psalms are comforting and they are reassuring us that God does deal with injustice.We must also remember that it is not our 'Godly' position to do battle with people whom we think create injustice or entities that we think create injustice in the world. It is God's job to deal with injustice. Our job is to forgive. Even when we encounter evil in the world. It is God's will not ours that will deal with evil. The Lord's prayer says "thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and deliver us from evil (the evil one)".
All to often, we turn to man and his will/way of dealing with evil/injustice. In fact, we have caused more problems in this world by doing that. We should turn to God and do what He asks us - to forgive.
A little more than a few of years ago, there was the tragic incident where a man stormed into an Amish school and killed a number of children. The parents of the victims immediately went to the family of the man who committed the atrocity and forgave him and helped his family get through the tragedy that was both theirs in terms of loss; but neither a greater loss. To often we like to measure our loss to someone else's and conclude that our loss is greater. We fail to look at what other people lose and that it may be just as great a loss. Losing the innocent is tragic. However, the loss of a troubled man/woman is just as tragic in that they may not have been reached in terms of their salvation and that they more than likely committed such an act (s) because they too were victims at some point in their life with no one to reach out to for help/for love.
Injustice will exist in this fallen world, let the Lord God handle it and the best you can do is to remain in Him.
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