Bible Verse of the Day 3/25/25 "Anger?"
Bible Verse of the Day
Jesus at the Temple
12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.
Matthew 21:12-13
There are lots of misconceptions about Christians and how we are called to live our lives. One being Christians should never get angry. In some ways it sounds correct, anger has done all sorts of wounding in each of our lives either from us receiving it from others or giving undo anger to others. But it is not scriptural.
People often look at Paul’s writing in Ephesians 4:26 and misunderstand what it is saying ““In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry” and I can see how someone could interpret it to say do not become angry, but that is not what it says, read it again….. “in your anger…” it states there are times we will get angry which is normal sometimes well justified. But the verse continues to warn about when we are angry “do not sin” but there is more to this warning in the following verse “27 and do not give the devil a foothold.”
There is so much to unpack here we will revisit it again with the next BV, but as you can see in the scripture from Matthew above there are things that we are called to rise up in anger over. In other accounts of Jesus in the temple we learn that Jesus first made a whip of cords that he took with Him. There was some level of premeditated and fully righteous anger.
There is much in life to have righteous anger over, human trafficking, verbal, mental, physical, and sexual abuse to name a few.
The key is to invite the Father into your anger, asking the Holy Spirit to counsel and guide your steps. We will revisit this more next time.
In the Father’s love
Sam