A Righteous Anger

A Righteous Anger

What makes you angry? Squeaky shopping cart wheels? People who talk during movies? Unwrapping a new music CD? Some people stay angry over these kinds of annoyances.

How about when your baby won’t stop crying? Or when your spouse is late for dinner? Or when your coworker keeps making the same mistake? That’s the kind of anger most people would admit they need to keep in check.

What about con men who rob innocent investors of their nest eggs? Or husbands who beat wives? Or the latest news about child sex trafficking? Hopefully, that makes you angry. And that’s an anger that can be used.

A righteous anger is an anger that longs for what is wrong to be made right. It should ignite in you a fire to see the helpless protected, the brokenhearted healed, and the captives freed.

Too often, evil thrives because people aren’t angry enough. Channel your righteous anger into doing something about it.

The LORD became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel. —1 Kings 11:9