Don't use your anger as fuel for revenge.
And don't stay angry.
Ephesians 4:26, The Message
"Anger is most useful as a diagnostic tool. When anger erupts in us, it is a signal that something is wrong. Something isn't working right. There is evil or incompetence or stupidity lurking about. Anger is our sixth sense for sniffing out wrong in the neighborhood.
What anger fails to do, though, is tell us whether the wrong is outside or inside us. We usually begin by assuming that the wrong is outside us -- our spouse or our child or God has done something wrong, and we are angry. But when we track the anger carefully, we often find it leads to a wrong within us -- wrong information, inadequate understanding, underdeveloped heart."
Under the Predictable Plant
God's Message for Each Day by Eugene Peterson.
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