When your're angry

"And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a feast that I have prepared for the king.” Esther‬ ‭5:4‬‬

Esther didn't come before the King at great risk to her life to invite him to a banquet. She came to plead for her people, who were fasting and no doubt praying for her about this encounter at her request. But Esther didn't rush it. She waited before appealing to the King for an opportune time. How she knew to wait we do not know for sure, but we do know that her waiting paid off. Esther was later able to expose Haman's plot against her people, and he ended up being hung on the gallows he built to kill her uncle Mordecai. Gary Chapman said, "righteous anger is designed by God to motivate us to take constructive action in the face of wrongdoing and injustice." But it's possible for us to be rightly angry at an injustice, but react to it in a wrong manner. Therefore Gary Chapman recommends that we restrain our immediate response. James wrote. "...let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger..." (James 1:19-20). It's wise for us before responding to what appears in our eyes to be injustice, to first of all stop and pray. Ask God to search your heart. Analyze your anger. Adrain Rogers said, "The way to be angry and sin not is to be angry at sin." Are you angry at sin? Also, Avoid an immediate response. For example, don't discipline your child in the heat of anger. If you do, you will more than likely be overly excessive in your discipline and it will not be constructive to your child. Lastly, Act in the Spirit not in the flesh. Esther acted in the Spirit because she was prayed up. She had received counsel from her godly uncle. Others were fasting and no doubt praying. Furthermore, she was restrained in her response. She waited for an opportune time. You're less likely to act in the Spirit, if you are not daily seeking God's counsel in prayer and in the word. In addition, we need godly wise people speaking into our lives. We need to be in the word and under the word. May God help us all, especially in this day and age, to "be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God" (James 1:-19-20).