“Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath.”
“Be angry, and do not sin” There’s a righteous anger against sin, ungodliness, and injustice. We should be angry when sin festers and destroys lives. We should be angry at ungodliness in the lives of others and even within ourselves. We should be angry and bothered that little children don’t have clean water or food because the rich elite ignore them because the devil is stirring up injustice. Look at our Savoir; He flipped the change tables on the temple grounds and pronounced correctly the woes to the religious elite who were shutting off people from worshipping their God who created them. We should join Him in His righteous anger, for sin, injustices and false religions do bar people from being reconciled to God. This calls us inwardly to be angry at sin, and be motivated to disarm the works of the Enemy.
“Do not let the sun go down on your wrath.” Though we are called to be angry at sin and bondage, we should not dwell in our anger when we get into our bed. God designed sleep to restore and to lighten burdens that were gained throughout the day. Paul actually quotes Psalm 4:4 with “Be angry and do not sin” if we look at the rest of the verse in Psalm 4:4, we see the fuller message that Paul is trying to portrait. “Be angry and do not sin, meditate within your heart on your bed and be still.” Meaning we should rest in the Lord so much so that our anger and hatred for sin would diminish to the point where our soul recites the end of Psalm 4:“I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; for You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.” (Psalm 4:8)
Application: I have a tendency to dwell in my anger against sin when I’m trying to fall asleep to where I actually don’t get the amount of sleep I need which makes me less effective for the Lord the following day. I will ask the Lord to quiet my mind and read the Psalms to have my mind focused on the Lord as I fall into restorative rest in Jesus Christ.
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