That anger is an emotional wall-builder is hard to dispute. Anger is a defensive measure designed to protect oneself against what is interpreted as threatening, physically or emotionally. Everyone is vulnerable when a threat is detected, so emotional walls are built in an attempt to be safe and protected.
Emotional walls are distance-creators for those of us who do not trust intimacy. Some walls are so expertly designed, they keep God at a distance and successfully stave off any attempt by him to reach our heart and soul. Yet we yearn to be changed and molded into something useful by him.
Listen, as Carl Sandburg offers himself to God in his poem, Prayers of Steel. “Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls.” God’s love is the crowbar that eradicates the walls of anger and fear. He replaces these old walls with trust and peace. Trust God to do this. I’m Olen Baker.
For [Christ] himself is our peace, who has made the two
one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility…
~Ephesians 2:14 New International Version
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