"You're making me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry"

So I got angry today...but it wasn't like the turn green, rip off my shirt and smash everyone in town, but it was more just the type that you get in your head. It was the type of anger I'm sure we all have felt that ruins a great day and you get this sweet vision in your head where you "accidentally" bump someone off a cliff or something like that. Which got me thinking. When does anger turn into a sin?

Most know the passage where Jesus clears out the temple. In Matthew it says, "Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves"(Matthew 21:12). This same story is told in Mark 11:12-19 and. Luke 19:45-48. Jesus then goes on to say, "It is written, My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers"(vs 13).

Jesus got angry! But what comes next is NOT where Jesus goes off with his disciples live in their anger, but right in the next verse it says, "The blind and the lame came to Him at the temple and He healed them"(vs 14). Since Jesus, the perfect man who we are called to be like, got angry then when is it okay for us to be angry?

In Proverbs 29:11 it says, "A fool gives full vent to His anger, but a wise man keels himself under control." When does control turn to full vent? Some help could come from Ephesians 4:26-27 where Paul writes, "In your anger do not sin. Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold." When, then, can I be angry without sinning?


PS- As I write this I am currently not angry, so this is not a rant.