There is an old saying that a man is a fool who can’t be angry, but a man is wise who won’t be. Anger is a common emotion that we must all learn to deal with. The Bible says, “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the devil” (Ephesians 4:26-27).
This teaches us that not all anger is sin. There must be anger in the Christian life, but it must be the right kind of anger. There would be something essentially missing in a person who had lost his faculty for being angry. Crossness, bad temper, and irritability are without defense. But there is an anger without which the world would be a poorer place. The anger that we need is an anger against sin and evil and injustice.
There we...