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Grief and Pain in the Plan of God: Christian Assurance and the Message of Lamentations is unavailable, but you can change that!

Most of us will have faced that most delicate situation of meeting a person who is suffering. We tend to go down one of two different avenues—one is to offer well-intentioned advice: often in the form of well-worn cliches that the person will have heard several times before. The other is not to say anything at all: risking the danger of leaving the person under the impression that God has no idea...

The problem is that anger can and does come dangerously close to evil when it is left unchecked and without control. That, as a matter of fact, is what is wrong with most definitions of anger; they imply a loss of self-control, an impulsiveness, and a temporary derangement. No wonder no-one wants to link God with that definition! On the contrary God’s anger is never explosive, unreasonable or unexplainable. It is rather His firm expression of real displeasure with our wickedness and sin. Even in
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