UFC is nuts!! (Psalm 30:5)

When I was growing up wrestling (NWA or WWF) was huge in the Carolinas. I mean thousands of grown men and women and their children would pour into coliseums and stadiums to watch the equivalent of a daytime drama on steroids. I mean nothing was real. It was all staged. (I am so sorry if you are one of the few that still believe in its sincerity.......oh and while I am at it, Santa is really just your Mom and Dad). Well, back to wrestling....I remember going to a match as a kid. I really don't remember any of it because I was scarred by a bathroom experience while I was there. Let's just put it this way, there was no private stalls and only one big troth style toilet in the middle of the room with at least a hundred drunk and bladder filled men relieving themselves in it .......the memories still haunt me. Over the years NWA faded out and WWF died but now we have something similar with the WWE.
I could be a wrestler, well aside from the fact that I would be considerably undersized, I could do it because it is just acting. I mean I am not scared to go up against one of those huge guys because I go in with a script. I know before going in the ring what is going to happen. I know when I am going to slam him or he is going to slam me, when to move when he jumps off the rope and when to do a pin move (always as the referee is looking in another direction). I could wrestle.......On the other hand, I could never be in the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship). Those guys are crazy. Two highly skilled men with social disorders get into a ring for the sole purpose of harming the other person. Arms and legs break, teeth are lost, brains are bashed, I mean it is nuts. You have got to really be angry at life and other people to do that. I just am not that angry. I have never really been that angry to do that. I guess during a couple jealous rages as a teenager I was close, but I just can't get that mad. I can talk a big game, but when it all comes down to it, I don't have the deep seeded anger necessary to harm another human being physically.

Sometimes though I get this view of God; that He gets so angry with me about decisions I have made or thoughts I have had or temptations that I have succumb to that He wants to drag me into the UFC rings and drop some top rope power all about my head just to hurt me......

Sin does make God angry. I am not saying that he laughs it off and goes about life, it does hurt Him to the core. You see, He sacrificed all to pay for our sin. Our foolishness and disobedience cost Him more than we could ever give. So when we continue on in our sin, He disciplines us like a Father disciplines his child. His anger is directed in the form of disciple, but it always comes to an end. He doesn't just spend His time ruining your life beating you down because He is ticked off at you. Believe me, it wouldn't take that long for Him to crush you if that is really what He wanted to do. He displays discipline to correct you. He desires for you to be obedient because within that obedience He knows you will be most fulfilled. He knows that because He made you. If you are going through some tough times right now, maybe it is due to a sin issue in your life that God is trying to correct you in. Maybe He is breaking you down so He can build you up strong enough to withstand a coming storm. Just keep in mind that if you ever feel like God is calling you into the cage know he doesn't intend to harm you, just to mold you. Psalm 30:5 says "His anger lasts only for a moment but His favor lasts a lifetime.; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning." (NIV)

I pray that if you are in the dark right now that you would be reminded that the morning is coming and with it comes joy.