Anger can be used to motivate us into action when injustice is present and when danger is present. Anger is a powerful emotion that God blessed us with.
What happens to most of us, though, is anger motivates us to speak out in the wrong.Īnger is not sin itself. It should motivate you to speak out against wrong. He evaluated the situation and decided this was worth fighting for. “And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of them that sold doves.” I don’t know about you, but He sounds angry to me. In Matthew 21:12 Jesus went into the temple in Jerusalem and when he saw merchants were using the church to make money, He became angry. That’s why we are told in Ephesians 6:26… “Be angry and sin not.” Unfortunately, most of us wind up sinning because of our anger. He said it right to their faces too! He was sinless in His anger, though. “Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,” he boldly says in Matthew 23. He wouldn’t tolerate the Pharisees hypocrisy and He told them so. Jesus wasn’t a weakling walking around with a lamb in His arms all the time. God wants us to be angry at sin like Jesus was. Where do you think that whole flood thing came from? Anger was intended to help us fight evil in the world. Even God Himself was often angry throughout the Bible. (Ephesians 4:26)Īnger, like all of our emotions, was created by God. Is it a sin to be angry?īe ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath. As this pertains to your Christian life, though, we need to figure out if this is sin. Regardless of which came first, the chicken or the egg, by the time most battles get going both parties are angry. Either someone is angry with you or you are angry with someone. Let’s face it, most battles have their root in anger. Once we learn to manage the emotion of anger correctly, then we can learn the important skill of choosing our battles wisely. Christians often misunderstand the emotion of anger and lump all anger into the same category and label it sin. Anger, though, is not always a bad thing. Battles make us angry, no doubt about that. Your survival as a Christian depends greatly on how you handle battles and how you handle that pesky emotion of anger.
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If you do not learn how to do this, then you will spend huge amounts of emotional and maybe even physical energy fighting every single battle that pops up. The only control you have, is to choose which battles you will fight, and which battles you will allow to slide on past. They are going to come your way whether you like it or not. Why You Should Choose Your Battles Wiselyīattles are inevitable. Picking, as in choosing your battle, is a very important skill and often crucial to your Christian life. But picking fights and starting fights are really two very different things. Don’t be that kid who will throw a punch every time someone disagrees with him.
But what do we really mean when we tell children not to “pick” fights? Well, we are telling them not to be bullies. Chances are you have said these words to a young person as well. “Hey! Don’t pick fights!” We can hear our teachers and parents echoing this advice from childhood.
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