The seemingly mild-mannered Bruce Banner was hiding a secret, but it’s not the one that you think… sure, he turns into an enormous green rage monster under the right circumstances, but the invisible burden he was carrying was finally exposed in the battle of New York, confessing that getting angry enough to transform into the Hulk would be easy because he was “always angry”. Buried deep beneath the facade of a kind, gentle man of science was the victim of a gamma radiation accident that changed his life forever, and his frustration at the life that he lost meant this hero was persistently at his breaking point. But his painful past, once he reconciled it with his calling, became his superpower and “Smart Hulk” emerged… a hero finally at peace. 

We all struggle with anger, and whether it is the unresolved trauma of our past or the challenges we are facing in the present, by submitting our frustrations to Christ we can prevent our anger from defining our actions and transforming us into an out-of-control “hulk” at the smallest provocation. Being angry at the unfair things that happen to us and alter our lives is normal, but when we surrender our pain to the Lord He does more than simply help us release our anger and heal our pain. He reveals the hidden power these events gave us to reach and save others.

Be angry, and do not sin: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil. Ephesians 4:26-27

So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. James 1:19-20

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