What are you angry at?

What are you angry at? Many people have been led to believe that anger itself is a sin, which is not true. Anger is an emotion and is not a sin, but when taken too far it can become a sin. Just like other emotions, people can sin by taking jokes too far, or fall into sadness and look to the wrong things to feel better. Anyway, anger is not sinful, if you are angry you don’t have to slap yourself and beg for forgiveness, but it’s how you deal with your anger that matters. We are told by James that “man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.” Does that mean getting angry makes you awful? NO! It means that when you get angry and deal with it in an inappropriate way it does not bring about a life God wants for you. People do stupid things when they are angry. Anger when let out of control can turn into violence which hurts others, not always physical, but verbal, mental…. and God doesn’t want that to happen. God doesn’t want other people to get hurt, and us to drop away from Him. The next time you get angry, think “am I glorifying God with my actions, and if I’m not I should calm down and start to”.