Anger: Passion that Purifies and Plunders
‘Be angry; don’t sin.’ (Eph. 4:26) Anger cuts both ways. It can incite one to drive idols from the Father’s house; it can drive others to fill that house with idolatry. We each face resistance to what we perceive as worthy goals. It helps to access the passion that motivates us to go against the grain. Anger may activate us to bore a hole through the hard wood of injustice, or at least what we perceive as unjust. Maybe that’s the catch. What begins as ‘justice’ may devolve in