A fine perspective on managing anger and following God’s will to love our enemies as well as our friends, by John Reiss at CGG.org:

“I confess that I have a problem. Perhaps you have the same one.

» When I see a retired police chief shot and killed while protecting a friend’s business from looters, I get angry.

» When I see people rioting, burning, and looting businesses in my hometown, I get angry.

» When I see people trespassing onto a private street and threatening homeowners with harm and violence, I get angry.

» When I see people chanting and screaming at diners as they are merely trying to enjoy their dinners, I get angry.

» When I see people stupidly and blindly calling for the defunding of the police, even as rioters are throwing numerous projectiles at their vehicles, I get angry.

» When I see protestors blocking the entrance to an emergency room, where emergency personnel brought two ambushed, critically injured police officers, cowardly shouting, “We hope they die!” I get very angry!

In Matthew 24:3, the disciples ask Jesus Christ: “Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” In the course of His answer, in verse 7, Jesus speaks of nation rising against nation. “Nation” is a translation of ethnos (Strong’s #1484), which means “a tribe, nation, people, group.” We can understand Jesus’ words to mean one ethnic group fighting another. It can describe national wars or cultural or racial strife. It is different from “kingdom against kingdom,” where our Savior uses the word basileia (Strong’s #992), which means “the region or country governed by a king.”

Over the past few years, cultural and racial strife has rocked this nation, especially its cities. We have seen the very foundations of our society attacked, and they are tottering. How much more additional stress can they take?”

See complete article here at Church of the Great God.