“Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.”James 1:19-20 NLT
What makes us angry? The actions of others? Opinions fueled by media, and noise? Scripture tells us, ‘be angry but do not sin’( Ephesians 4:26,27). There are things, injustices, that we should be angry about and go to prayer about. We sin when we adopt attitudes to the people who speak lies given them by Satan. The problem is the spirit behind the person not the person.
James, in the scripture above, tells us to be slow to become angry. We do this by thinking through and praying about a matter. When we have God’s insight into the angst we are able to deal with it correctly. Anger is not wrong but needs to be handled correctly. If it drives us to injure another person, in word or action, it is wrong. However, if it causes us to pray, then it is constructive.
Today’s world is filled with anger. People are protesting against Israel, because they are fueled by lies. People protest against many things, the climate, the government, etc however, rarely do they have the full picture, especially if they are angry. Why not protest against the senseless murder of the unborn? Unfortunately, that is not as important. Forgive us Lord!
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