I chose to serve my wife. It was a full day. It was a good day.

I know that I had committed to write a devotional every day.

So, to serve the one over the many is like Mary at our Saviors feet while Martha toiled alone in the kitchen.

And that is my service today.

Psalm 69:24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

There are really evil things happening in this world. I confess that some of those things have made me so angry that I wanted to pour out my indignation upon them, and let my wrathful anger take hold of them. I wanted to be the vehicle of vengeance.

Simply put, I wanted to play god. Vengeance is mine I will repay. I had already played judge and jury, let me be the executioner also! That is what anger does for you. Anger isn’t satisfied by running off at the mouth. Anger has to put its hands on someone and throttle them. Anger isn’t easily abated. I know this to be true by experience.

Let me tell you what else I learned from that moment and it is more important than the sin I tried avenging. I lost my mind. I was no longer me, I became something without control or will to choose. I was unable to loosen my grip and nothing existed but the act itself.

I was no longer me. I forgot who I was. Now years later I know who I am in Christ Jesus. I am a new creation in Christ and a minister of reconciliation. Forgetting who I am now means something loving, gracious and kind stops being loving, gracious and kind. I am called to be a light unto the world. Anger turns off the light. That is the enemy having his way with me, being used of Satan rather than used of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

Ephesians 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

We will get angry, the idea is to not allow it to consume us.