Anger is described as being an emotional state of mild annoyance to extreme and intense rage and agitation. It can be at times a wonderful motivator but most often is a tragic hindrance. Understand the true nature of anger so that you can take back control in order that anger no longer emotionally cripples you.

Psychologists call anger a healthy emotion as it can be used in a way that motivates us into well intended situations, but more often than not, we allow anger to be used as the fuel for the fire that kindles within. While this emotion is normal and common, I do not believe it is healthy because God suggests that it is not all that beneficial. Scripture shows us that anger is a normal human response, how it becomes unhealthy is when we give ourselves over to it and allow ourselves to indulge in sin.

“In your anger do not sin. Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry.” Ephesians 4:6


 Anger can be best described as being an intense emotion brought on by the feeling of being offended, frustrated, wronged, confused, and denied. All these feelings come about when one makes the conscious choice to stand up against the offending party or event and try to stop the wrong doing.
You can’t think straight when you are angry. When we get angry, we do not realize that already the retaliation that is turning over in our minds and our hearts is leading us into sin. The above scripture is telling us it’s better to not be angry because what happens when we sin in our anger? We hurt someone else.

Ephesians 4:6 explicitly states that we are responsible, okay not in so many words, but reading between the lines, and using biblical license, it’s there. How do I know it’s there? Because we are responsible of how we treat one another, ourselves or God. Anger is never an excuse. Just because we get angry because someone else made us angry is not an excuse that warrants any way ward behavior.

Do you know that Moses sinned in his anger? His anger cost him from entering into the land of Canaan. It wasn’t that Moses was unloved by God, far from it. The reason why Moses wasn’t permitted entry was because in his anger he disobeyed God. What’s the number one rule that we are supposed to adhere by?