Do you ever get so angry…

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

Psalm 37:8

Do you ever have those days when you get so angry at others and their ways, that you wonder if is a sin to do so? In the course of some days, I find myself so mad at certain individuals I just want to yell and scream at them and get it into their head that they are wrong in what they are doing. It could be many different things, but the thing that I find I get the most angry about is when they profess to be a Christian, yet their ways, works and acts tell a completely different story.

Most times I can pray about it and ask God to lift the anger from my heart and to replace it with an understanding heart. But there are times when it feels that I just keep getting angrier by the minute.

But I find in Proverbs that there are two different types of people. The Wise and the Fools. And when I read them I see the things that cause me anger and why.

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

Proverbs 11:9

And I see this all the time. A person professing they are a Christian but are always talking about other people in a bad or negative way and it drives me crazy.

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

Proverbs 11:18

So I guess this post only shows that even Solomon, who wrote Proverbs seen the evil and the fools just like we do today. I often wonder how he dealt with them and if he got as angry as we do today.

I currently do not have an answer or a way to fix the anger that I get when seeing the “fools”. But I do know I need to pray more about my heart and not be so judgmental as well as be more forgiving.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Matthew 7:3