Why Has Quarantine Made Me So Angry?
“Why was the master angry at the guests who turned down his invitation to feast in Luke 14:21? They considered their own business more important than his, and so despised him. And why was the older brother angry—refusing to join the feast––in Luke 15:28? He was indignant that the younger brother, living life below him, had suddenly been honored above him.” - TGC
It strikes me that there are some things that are just our inconvenience, but there are other things with this—arbitrarily shutting down churches and businesses, political leaders refusing to enforce laws against rioters leading to destruction of businesses and homes, etc..—where anger is righteous. Or at least I thought that, per places like Romans 13, we had the right to expect that laws would be enforced equitably.
I’m personally in a place like the author—it’s mostly an inconvenience for me—but my mood would be quite different if I were, say, the owner of one of the car lots torched in riots, or the owner of a small business kept closed long after my competition was allowed to re-open.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
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