Anger 

   “For human anger does not bring about the righteousness of God.” (James 1: 19) 

   We are an angry people, it takes very little to bring us to a boiling rage.  In my opinion, it is our pride that feeds our anger.  We are unwilling to even consider that someone else may know better than we do and have the audacity to tell us so.  Yet anger produces nothing but evil.

   Consider the times that we have betrayed our Lord throughout our life; the number of times humanity has rejected the way of the Lord.  We have turned to human gods of selfishness, lust, pride, and money.  We look to ourselves to determine right and wrong when only God can define what is good and what is evil.

   If anyone has any right to be angry, it is God.  Man and woman, created by Him out of love has rejected Him throughout history and continues to do so today.  Yet He allows us to continue to slap Him in the face with our obstinance and self-aggrandizement.  Why?  Because He loves us and wants us to finally realize that fact and turn to Him in love.  He wants none of us to be lost, but to spend eternity with Him in the paradise He has prepared for us.

   We have no right to anger unless it is righteous anger over sin.  But even that anger can never be directed at the sinner, only the sin.  We are all the children of God and there is no room for anger in God’s family.