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“Be Angry & Do Not Sin”
“Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent” Psalm 4:4.
It’s so good to know that it’s possible to be angry and not sin. This would be a righteous anger, an anger that comes from an injustice that’s being done not a lashing out to hurt someone. Even Jesus was angry in the temple when He overturned the tables of the moneychangers. But, He took the time to make a whip, and He did not hurt anyone in the process. He who was without sin (Hebrews 4:15), dealt only with the turning of His Father’s house into a den of thieves. So, what are we to do with these feelings of anger? Cain was told to master them before they mastered him. We are to go to God in prayer with them. Rather than stewing and being unable to sleep, we should turn them over to our Father as we lie in our beds at night. We can pray that He will let us know what to do with our anger. David, whose Psalm this is, often expressed how he truly felt in situations to God, and yet he was a man after God’s heart. Trust God, though, and don’t make suggestions in your anger about how He could best help you.
Are you silent to let God work on your situation and your heart?