In doing so, what ends up coming out of your mouth is grace and peace instead of anger and nonsense responses that tear down rather than build up. I have found instead of trying to control anger by mustering up enough internal fortitude (a true impossibility), the answer to dealing with besetting sins is to take seriously the medicine of Scripture by ingesting God’s Word so that it inhabits your entire being. How can we know the difference and how can we deal with the constant urge to lash out at others because our triggers have been tripped (code for lack of self-control)? Thankfully, Scripture has much to say about the topic of anger, both righteous anger, and sinful anger.
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This, of course, begs the question as to how to determine the difference between righteous anger and sinful anger. Even when we respond against godlessness in society, we must not let our anger move from godly anger to out of control sinful rage. Of course, one must be careful with how they respond in anger, as the motivation must alwaysremain pure and holy. There are times when anger is merited such as being angry with the murder of the unborn, anger against the decimation of biblical marriage in society, or anger at those who prey upon the innocent. Why? Why do we so easily succumb to unrighteous anger? I use the term “we” because be honest, you fall prey to this as well if you are being honest with yourself. The underlying question I have to ask myself is why am I seemingly so easily angered? Is the anger justified, meaning is my response legitimately based on what Scripture deems as righteous anger? Or on the other hand, am I merely allowing needless anger to bubble up and run over out of my mouth for reasons far less godly than I would like to admit? I humbly submit 9.9 times out of 10 the answer is the latter. A certain attitude, a look, a comment, or an action, are all things that seem to shall we say get my goat. I am quickly realizing there are certain things in life that cause me to get angry.