Anger and Sin

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger - Ephesians 4:26 NASB

While I saw people on the news who were supposedly happy with the outcome of the Casey Anthony trial yesterday, I don't know anyone in my realm of reality that agreed with that. God is the author of justice. So yesterday's verdict angers us, because it doesn't seem like justice. I could launch into a diatribe now about how flawed our legal system is and how morally corrupt our world is, but we are all aware of these facts. The question now is, how do we handle these facts?

I struggle with this idea a lot. How can we be angry and not sin? How do we still enjoy God's peace and fight injustice at the same time? How do we reconcile the idea of an all-powerful God and injustice we see everyday? I am not the first to ask this question. I will not be the last. And I think this is one of the hardest questions of the Christian Faith. I truly wish I could offer an answer that would completely satisfy this problem. I don't have a plain answer. What I have is faith.

I believe that God is ultimately in control, but I believe He has chosen to give mankind freewill - freewill that we misuse constantly. But I also believe that God's promise to always be with us, to never leave nor forsake us, is real. Bad things happen, but God never abandons us. I can't imagine how much worse any of this would be without God. I have been through very dark times in my life. There were times when I was so angry with God for letting things happen to me that were awful and unfair. But God never left me. Now I know that He carried me through those times. He comforts me even now.