His beautiful feet

Psalm 79:9, "Help us, O God our Savior, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and forgive our sins for Your name's sake."

Carrying the burden of anger and hate is too much.  It's the "one rotten apple that spoils the whole bunch" when you marinate in it too much.  It takes your heart to darker places, and you have just let what is not for your own good rent space in your head.  It is hard though...I get it because I have been there and done that.  

Asaph takes his anger, hurt, sadness to the right place.  Israel was destroyed and their enemies in their final act of humiliation left the dead to rot in the street without burial and other nations are now taunting them asking, "Where is their God?" He goes to the One who can change not only the circumstances but also his heart.  He pours out his anger and asks for God's forgiveness, for His deliverance, and for Him to glorify His name.

As part of the Abrahamic covenant, God promised to "curse those who cursed Abraham's descendants." (Gen. 12: 2,3)  Until Jesus came, these covenants were what they held on to and how God showed His love for His people.  Wiersbe reminds us now that, "The cross of Jesus Christ is for us today the only evidence we need that God loves us."  We know His character and promises are true because He commissioned the writers of the Bible to show us.  We know He will take care of His children because He gave what He loved most for us to have union with Him forever.   What He wants in return is our hearts...the good, the bad and the ugly.  He wants us to lay down the ugly (the hate, the anger...) at His feet and leave it there so we can go love and bring glory to His name.   

So I lay my anger there.  Darn it all if sometimes I don't go pick that darned thing up again; but I go and lay it again at His feet and know He forgives me, He will take care of me, and He will glorify His name.