What do you do when you have a problem, and you realize your problem is God? It’s not something you can easily share with pastors or church friends. It’s not something you can easily dare to confess to God. In Sacred Screaming, Charlie W. Starr explores the biblical theme of wrestling with God. When Jacob was renamed Israel, the “God Wrestler,” everything changed, and some of God’s most faithful, spiritually mature people took up the practice of wrestling with Him over their fears, doubts, anger and outrage. Job, Elijah, Jeremiah, Habakkuk, David, and Jonah wrestled with God. They got into His face: Job demanded answers, David accused God of abandoning him, Jeremiah accused Him of lying! And God loved them for it. Even Jesus wrestled with God in Gethsemane and did not sin. When you realize you can’t possibly have a good reason to be unhappy with, even angry at God, and yet you do have reasons to be just that, Scripture offers you a cloud of witnesses who went through the same thing. They screamed and wrestled their way back to God, and they scream out today to let you know you’re not alone. What do you do when your problem is God? Sacred Screaming explores the answers.
