Anger

How do I know if my anger is righteous anger?

Don't let the devil fool you into sinning.

All my life I have heard people say, get angry but sin not. I have ask myself, how do I get angry and not sin? Anger itself can be a sin unless it is righteous anger. This brings us to the question, what is righteous anger?

Righteous anger has at least three attributes.

1: It arises and reacts because of SIN and your hatred for sin, not because someone did something you did not approve of.

2: It focuses on God and how he feels about the situation and not on yourself.

3: It is always accompanied with Godly qualities in your life such keeping self control and praying over the situation.

When you get angry or mad at something, look at it. Are you angry at the person or are you angry at the sin. Righteous anger will be directed toward the sin and not the person. You should still feel love for the person and pray for them while being angry at what they have done. Righteous anger is always directed at the sin which is the thing that God hates. God hates sin and won't look upon it. The prophet Habbakuk taught us this.

Habbakuk 1:13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

Man always tries to justify his anger by thinking it is righteous. One of Satan's greatest tools is to fool man into believing his anger is righteous when in fact it is usually a sin in itself.  Man's anger is rarely righteous.

James 1:19-20:  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:  For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Kathy Wellman
RE:  King James Bible