Conversing the Kingdom: Anger... Love in Motion

James 1:19-20

Anger in it's purest form is love in motion. Anger is a force for the destruction of injustice performed against an object of love. The diference between worldly anger and righteous anger all turns on the object of the love.
Thinking about that the other way round if we notice what it is we get angry about most often then this is the thing we most Love.
Anger is a tool that can be used destructivly if slashed about or can be used strategically like a surgons knife. James calls us here to be slow to anger, that our anger be slowly considered and calculated for the right implication. Wordly anger is quick tempered and sudden in nature because it is so often a selfish defensiveness. If someone wounds our character this is a sin and needs to be delt with. A worldly anger would look to achieve justice by paying the person back through embassesment or belittling, using fear to prevent a repeat of the offense. The focus of love here is self. Righteous anger absorbs the injustice of the sin on behalf of the sinner and goes after the root of the sin for the salvation of the sinner. The focus of love here is the sinner. In our righteous anger we must learn from the greatest example ever made, Jesus on the cross. Jesus absorbed our sin so much that it took him to the cross where he bore the wrath of God on our behalf in the ultimate surgical strike on sin. This was true Love in motion.