Maybe you prayed and things got worse. Maybe you were hurt by people who claimed to speak for God. Maybe life has simply been unfair. Anger at God can feel dangerous to admit, as if saying it out loud might make things worse.
The Bible is full of complaints
Some of the Bible’s most faithful people were furious with God, and said so. Job lost his children, his health and his livelihood, and refused to stay quiet:
Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 7:11
The prophet Habakkuk opened his book with a complaint:
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
Habakkuk 1:2
Honesty is a kind of faith
These prayers are in the Bible on purpose. They show that you can bring your real feelings to God rather than hiding them. Complaining to God is still talking to God.
Even Jesus, on the cross, cried out with the opening words of a psalm of lament:
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Psalm 22:1
Christians believe God is not threatened by your anger. In Jesus, he has been to the darkest place himself.
Where to take it
You don’t need to resolve your anger before you come to God. You might start by telling him exactly how you feel, in your own words. If your anger is tied to harm done to you by a church or a Christian, that matters, and you deserve to be heard.
We are happy to listen to your story, without trying to argue you out of it.
