Our Anger Problem and What To Do About It

We express anger out of revenge rather than a genuine desire for biblical justice. Unrighteous anger is justice gone wild.

Whether we deal with a stubborn child or co-worker, traffic or burnt food, abortion, or war, it is in our DNA to react. We often signify our reaction with outbursts of uncontrolled, moderated, or conserved anger. Anger is our reaction when we see that justice is not distributed according to our standards. The Bible is a response book to either man’s anger or God’s anger, and stay with me here– there is no need for a coin toss to figure out who is righteous and who most often is not.

God is infinitely righteous (Ezra 9:15), and his anger is fleeting, but his favor lasts forever. So, every time we look at the world, we should be grateful that God is spectacularly unfair: he does not deal with us according to our sins (Ps. 103:10). He would crush us at the first sounds of our frustration and complaints about the weather if he did.

But God is merciful.