The right kind of anger!

Ecclesiastes 7: 9 (NAS)

Do not be eager in your heart to be angry, for anger resides in the bosom of fools.

There were times when my two boys were young, when they seemed to fight about everything.

They would even fight with each other, when it came to simple chores around the house.

Often in my unsettled spirit, I have to admit that anger would often get the best of me.

In the end, guess who looked like the bigger fool?

God never said we shouldn’t get angry, but He did say that anger shouldn’t get the best of us.

There is a right time to be angry—and a wrong time to get angry.

What’s the right time? When the anger is righteous in the eyes of God.

There is a thing, such as righteous anger.

I think what we need to remember most, is that God said we should be slow to anger.

I sure wished I had better control of that emotion, than I sometimes do.

“Father, would You help us not to become angry at the first thing that sets us off?

Help us all today, to be slower to become angry—and help us to be only angry, in a righteous way.

Amen.”