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“When angry, do not sin; do not ever let your wrath (your exasperation, your fury or indignation) last until the sun goes down. Leave no [such room] or foothold for the devil [give no opportunity to him].”  Eph 4:26-27

It often passes our notice that to allow our anger to persist through the night – is sin.  It is not sin to allow anger to arise, it is sin to allow it to persist.  To give it a place, or give it quarter, or room.  That is what is sin.

One time the Lord gave me a picture of sin – like bird poop on my head.  If a bird ever pooped on your head, you would be rushing to clean it off!  Quickly!  But we are not so quick to clean anger off of our emotional plate, so to speak.  Imagine that bird poop lingering.  Like egg on a plate it dries, becomes glued to your hair.  It’s harder to remove.

Have you ever had a Tupperware container that had stinky food in it?  The container picks up the odor of that food with time.  Afterwards, there is nothing to be done but to throw that container away!  It has been ruined for other use.

So why is giving anger a place that extends beyond that night so grievous to the Lord that it becomes sin? Because this is an indulgence of our flesh that gives room for the enemy to establish a beachhead, a foothold of operation in our lives.  He is given quarter – room, by our consent whether intended or not.  By not quickly discharging our anger as the word says, we have met the conditions for the enemy to have a place in our emotional component where he is legally able to now interfere, corrupt, and taint our perspective on the situation.  We have held up a large sign of welcome to every evil perspective and its cohort to feed into that situation, making it more and more difficult for a resolution to occur that is pleasing and in agreement with the Lord.  And yet, we have been the party who has made this possible. We have compromised the integrity of truth in our thinking and given access to thinking that exalts itself against the true knowledge of God! (2Cor 10:3-5)  We have muddied our own mental posture before the Lord by giving such quarter to the enemy. Now what you have surrendered to (that is your anger and the enemy’s feed-in) rules over your thoughts and the situation, until you repent… (Rom 6:16).

Now, there is another option for us all that is the greater point.  Situations of anger will come.  But they come so that we will deal with them according to the word and the Spirit of God.  They come so that we exercise a choice to overcome, and to draw down into ourselves the very heart of the word of God that transforms us right where we need it.  Then we become more than conquerors, not only of our own flesh but of the enemy as well. When we overcome our own disposition and anger through Christ, we are victors in the midst of our own struggle to not sin (to not let the sun go down on our anger), and we experience the joy of the Lord!  It is obedience to the Lord and the Father’s will that usher in the joy of the Lord.  It is indulging what gratifies the Spirit and not what gratifies my flesh that brings great joy!

So, clean off the slate of offense and clean your plate of your anger quickly!  Don’t wait for evening to even approach.  Do it now!  Be like a little child in your perspective on yourself:  be humble, lowly, loving, and forgiving!  Get the bird poop off while it is easy to do so, and have joy unspeakable in the process!