埃利．維瑟爾（Elie Wiesel）在經歷恐怖的奧斯維辛集中營後，對上帝失去了信心。他回想自己和他人遭受的酷刑折磨，向上帝呼求說：「上帝不是慈愛的嗎？祢在哪裡？我從小就不會把希望寄託在人的身上，而是完全指望。」

維瑟爾後來意識到，他沒有完全失去信心。他對一位記者說：「正因我相信上帝，我才會對上帝生氣，而且現在還很生氣。」如果你不相信上帝真的存在，你就不會對祂生氣。

我們可能覺得對上帝生氣並不恰當，但聖經記載先知耶利米埋怨說：「耶和華啊，祢愚弄了我」（耶利米書20章7節，新譯本）。大衛寫道：「耶和華啊，祢忘記我要到幾時呢？要到永遠嗎？」（詩篇13篇1節）約伯說：「冤枉我的是上帝」（約伯記19章6節，新普及譯本）。約伯不知道自己的不幸有撒但這一角色，而指責上帝殘酷不仁（10章3節），甚至控告上帝！（31章35節）雖然約伯後來承認自己的理解有限（42章3節），但值得注意的是，上帝從未因約伯生氣而責備他。

儘管維瑟爾有許多疑問，卻仍向上帝禱告說：「讓我們和解吧！我無法忍受長久與祢分離。」我們也可能因上帝沒有制止這世界的苦難而對上帝生氣，但我們向祂表達怒氣，能成為另一種禱告。這能讓我們與上帝保持親近，因祂不只要我們讚美祂，也允許我們將怒氣帶到祂面前。

After the horrors of Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel lost his faith. “Where were you, God of kindness?” he asked, recalling the evil he and others suffered. “In my childhood I did not expect much from human beings. But I expected everything from you.”

And yet, Wiesel realized later that his faith had never really left him. “It is because I believed in God that I was angry at God,” he told a journalist, “and still am.” You don’t get angry at someone you don’t believe exists.

We might feel uncomfortable expressing anger at God, but biblical characters did. “You deceived me, Lord,” the prophet Jeremiah cried (20:7). “Will you forget me forever?” David wrote (Psalm 13:1). “God has wronged me,” Job said (19:6). Unaware of Satan’s role in his misfortune, Job accused God of being cruel (10:3) and even subpoenaed Him to court (31:35)! While Job later discovered that his understanding was limited (42:3), it’s important to note God never rebukes his feelings.

Despite his questions, Elie Wiesel prayed, “Let us make up. It is unbearable to be divorced from you so long.” We too might be angry at God for not limiting the suffering in our world, but our expressing it to Him can become prayer in disguise—keeping us close to the God who wants us to bring not just our praise but our anger to Him too.