“What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?” – Jean-Yves Leloup, Compassion and Meditation
It is hard to imagine how God, who is Love Himself can ever be angry. But I guess, this is precisely the answer… Love. We often err in our anger because we do not love as God loves. Only by having that kind of love can anger ever be truly righteous.
Let us note further how love is the very source also of that anger. God becomes angry when people sin because they become what they should not be, they hurt themselves and they hurt other people. Love only wants what is best for those it holds dear, what can make them truly happy for all eternity.
Let us compare it with our own anger. How many times do we get angry because of love and not because of envy or pride? Is our love as strong as our anger? Or is it so faint it almost falls into nothingness?
God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?”
He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
The LORD said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not laboured, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”
-JONAH 4:9-11, WEB-BE
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