Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: but I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Matthew 5:21-22 KJV
Harboring anger without cause is gambling with your eternity. Anger is an emotion that allows us to vent our dissatisfaction. However when not well managed, can put us out of favour with God. In scripture, we see people who did not have good anger management practices; Moses got angry on a number of times. In fact one of the reason why God denied him seeing the promised land is because of his lashing angrily at a rock to produce water after being stressed by the people. God had instead asked him to speak to the rock. David was very angry when he marshalled his men to attack Nabal. It took the wise intervention of Abigael, his wife to stop him from sinning against God. Jonah became angry at God for not punishing Nineveh and being merciful to its people. Many instances of mismanaged anger are mentioned in the Bible. Christ warns us against harboring anger. He warns us especially from harboring anger directed at people as opposed to sin. Christ Himself is recorded as being angry at one point which drove Him to chase business people from the temple. However, in no way was His anger personal. His anger was against sin. Against an act. In no way is Christ asking us not to get angry. Sin must anger us. Wrongdoing must incense us. However, once we make people the object of our anger, we sin against God. If this anger is allowed to fester, it develops into a grudge then a desire to harm another person. We are forgiven people. We ought to be forgiving to others and not harbor anger and enmity which has the potential to jeopardize our road to eternity.
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