The Good Anger

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Are you angry? Good. Good? What kind of counsel is that? You're thinking, "I know anger is a sin and I'm trying to deal with it and you say good?" That's right. You see anger can lead to change and breakthrough. The problem comes when anger is misdirected. Anger at people is not good. Anger that festers and becomes bitterness is also not good. But godly anger produces repentance and change and leads to action that unleashes breakthrough in your life. And maybe the very reason a breakthrough has not already taken place in your life is that up until now you haven't been angry enough over that sin, over complacency, over bondage, over that situation. Changes will only take place in your life when you become so sick of not changing that you well up with godly anger, the anger to say to sin, "I'm not gonna take it anymore. I'm sick of it! That's the last straw! I'm finally going to do something about that sin!" Be angry enough to change because sometimes you have to be good and angry before you'll be good for anything.rn

From Message #386 - Be Angry