Anger didn’t get the attention it needed. Sexual sins often get our attention; anger not so much. But when the apostle Paul enumerates sins, he especially identifies unbridled desires that are expressed in sensuality and anger, and idolatry appears as a connecting thread between the two.
Now the works of the flesh are known and are: prostitution, impurity, lust, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, jealousy, jealousy, anger, discord, dissension, factions, envy, drunkenness, greed (Galatians 5. 19-21).
Considering the severity of anger, here are some basic tips that can improve our learning about it.
There are no exceptions. In your church today, is anger a destroyer?separate friends, break marriage ties, crush children. It can take different forms. Seek anger in murderous rages, but also in murmurs and complaints (Numbers 14:2, 11) or in someone’s indifference and silence. Sometimes he defes instead of attacking, but anger is in all of us.
We want peace, health, respect, love, authority, influence, security and more. Sinful anger occurs when these desires and expectations become more important to us than to love God and neighbour (James 4:1-2).
We underestimate the frequency of our own anger and its impact on others, while others underestimate the impact of their anger on us. Our anger sounds like “Am I right?” In fact, she says, “Do I hate you?”and “Am I superior to you?” The more violent our anger is, the more we feel we’re right. Therefore, angry people are the last to know that they are angry about sin. Can anger also say, “I’m hurt and don’t want to get hurt anymore?or “I’m afraid and I feel powerless,” but the attitude of controlling our world in our own way and on our terms remains.
Angry Jesus?
Jesus was never angry when he was tested, ridiculed, or rejected; in fact, he was angry. The camblist incident is one of the best-known stories of the New Testament (John 2:13-17). But his anger was not mixed with selfishness and arrogant motives like ours. His deep passion was for the glory of the Father.
In other words, anger is not always a sin, but because of the few times we really fall into anger, we will do well not to give our own anger the benefit of doubt.
James 4. 1-10 is a passage that corresponds to almost everything we need to know about our anger:
Where do the wars and conflicts between you come from?Where, if not the pleasures that militate in your flesh?Lust and has nothing; kill and envy, and you can’t get anything; you live fighting and making wars. You have nothing, because you are not asking; you ask and you do not receive, because you ask wrong, to waste on your pleasures. Unfaithful, don’t you understand that the friendship of the world is God’s enemy?Anyone who wants to be friends with the world is god’s enemy. Or do you think Scripture says in vain: Is it with jealousy that the Spirit yearns for us, that it has made us dwell?On the contrary, it is more graceful; Thus he said, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Therefore submit to God; but he resists the devil and will run away from you. Come to God and he’ll come near you. Clean your hands, sinners; and you who have a dual mind, purify your heart. Cry, cry and cry. Turn your laughter into tears and your joy into sadness. Humilise yourself in the presence of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
There are passages and stories about anger through the scriptures, and none is complete in itself, but James offers us much information Our desires, our wars, our relationship with God, and Satan’s influence are all united for us in James’ words on anger. .
It does not enter into the details of God’s patience and how quickly He forgives; these pearls are included in his observation of God’s jealousy of us and how the Lord gives us more and more grace. What this passage does is open our blind eyes to see what anger looks like against others and against God. We would all benefit from mastering and being dominated by these verses.
When we change behavior, we want to know what we are transforming; We turn away from the anger we have; We turn to Christ and live under his authority; we are changing the way we accept our anger because we are can actually have evidence that would be sustained in court) out of humility and love. And this change will take longer if it is made with regrets and weeping (James 4. 9).
We are busy people, and it is not easy to find space for the things that are in God’s heart, but our sinful anger is a temporal harmony with the devil’s killer ways. He opposes the unity that is at the heart of the kingdom of Christ. .
We must not neglect this sin or justify it.