In biblical counseling, we’re usually eager to jump in and define a problem biblically. We need to do that, we need to give careful attention to it. But anger is one of those particular topics where sometimes our focus becomes just on the outward problem. We want to focus on anger itself and not necessarily what it’s revealing—because it gets your attention, especially when it’s an outburst. I want to encourage us to look beyond that, to look at anger as an indicator. But more than that, I want to look at righteous anger.
Do you know how the arm of the Secret Service that looks for counterfeit bills operates? There’s so many creative things that people do to counterfeit currency, so the Secret Service doesn’t necessarily study fake bills. They focus on studying the genuine article, so that they can recognize something that’s off from that. Oftentimes we skip talking about righteous anger. We can have a perspective that says, “Well, there’s sinful anger and righteous anger. We don’t do righteous anger really well. So let’s talk about sinful anger because that’s what we’re observing.”
I would contend to you that
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