Anger is a God-given emotion meant to prompt us to achieve something difficult, correct some evil, or endure something we can’t change without giving up. Anger is meant to be constructive. It’s meant to give us energy, the power to correct an evil we can change or endure an evil we cannot change.
If you’re getting angry about people, situations, and policies that you can’t change, and that you have no right to change, things that are beyond the scope of your authority, well, how can that anger be constructive?
So are you always getting angry about the decisions of political authorities or church authorities? What good is that kind of anger going to do anyone? Why worry about the decisions you can’t make? The point of anger is to help you carry out the decisions that are within the scope of your authority.
So against what evil should our wrath primarily be directed? What corruption are we primarily called to reform? Us. Our sin. Our evil. Our vice. Our corruption. That’s the primary evil we know, that’s the primary evil we’re called to correct.
If you’re going to get angry, get angry about your own sins. And then use that energy to cleanse God’s temple which is your own soul. Anger is the God given energy first to change the evil within us, the only thing we can control.
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