God Is Angry Every Day

God Is Angry Every Day

We are exhorted to put off all anger, because man’s anger does not result in anything good—ever! It is a terrible sin, and madness, for a person to get angry. Anger dwells in the bosom of fools. “But the hypocrites in heart store up wrath . . . .” Job 36:13. “For wrath [is a sin that] brings the punishment of a sword . . . .” Job 19:29.

Anger is one of the works of the flesh, and those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Gal. 5:19-21.

However, when it concerns God’s anger, the matter is quite different, because He is absolutely perfect and “balanced.” His anger is always sufficiently great, righteous, and beneficial; it serves us for our conversion and salvation if we react to it in the right way!

God not only has the right to be angry, He is just as angry as He is righteous. He is so angry that Moses asks this question in Psalm 90:11: “Who knows the power of Your anger as the fear of You requires?”

This must necessarily mean that no one knows how indescribably angry God is, and this is the very reason, generally speaking, there is such a crying lack of a genuine fear of God. This, in turn, is because people absolutely do not believe in all the strong words in the Bible that clearly speak of this unknown, strong anger against all sin, especially against all haughtiness and conceit—that is, entertaining exalted thoughts about yourself.

Put into completely different words, unbelief is the main sin! Because through faith we can be thoroughly saved from all kinds of sin, also from the sin of entertaining exalted thoughts about ourselves.

Just this one example of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, together with two hundred and fifty respected men who held to them, should be more than enough for everyone to understand God’s mighty righteousness and His resultant anger against all haughtiness and all other sins! Numbers, Chapter 16.