Christlike anger

so i've had this on my mind for the past week or two, and i've not written anything on here in about that long, so i figure that this will be an appropriate thing to write about. i am talking about anger. this has been a topic that has picked my brain for probably about a year or more now. i see in scripture where it says for us to "put away" anger (among other things of course). Two specific instances where I'm talking about is in Colossians 3:8, and Ephesians 4:31.

Okay patrick, why is that so mind boggling? Well, i'm glad you asked patrick, let me explain where i'm coming from! So - earlier on in Ephesians 4:26, it says "Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger," (ESV). This sparks an interest in my poor mind as to how I'm to put it away, but also experience it without sinning....

The first thing that i looked into was the original language, where i'm still coming up with a little bit of a road blockage. They are both pretty similar words in meaning...basically the same thing. And according to different sources, both words are used in different places in Scripture. For example, the word for anger in verse 26 is also used here in Matthew 5:22 where Jesus says "But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgement...". But then i thought more about it and thought about the context of all of these situations. Anger is such a weird subject to me. It's like, there are different approaches to it. I will do my best to boil it down to two different sides here. I would say that there is a way to deal with anger in a Christlike manner, and in a manner that is that of the worlds.

I see it this way, we have arguably one instance where Jesus got angry (the clearing of the temple). I will also state that for him to make a whip, it implies that he took some time out to "let it simmer" in his mind (for lack of a better phrase or example). I keep coming back to one point in my head, and it makes sense to me. Basically this is what it is: anger is not wrong, but when not handled well, it very well can be. I wrap it up in my mind with this as well. Jesus spent 33 years here and we have, for the most part, one recorded instance where he was hot pissed - and I've been here for nearly 22 years and i can't count on my digits how many times i've been angry. I can safely assume that the majority of those times, i was in sin. I am one of those people who is very rarely angry or mad - but even still, i have been. I want to fight off worldly anger and worldly expressions of anger. I don't want to be content with saying stuff like "hey, i can blow up every now and then", because then i settle to be content with living with sin in my life.

So this is really long, i started it around 8:15 this morning, and I finished up the second half of it at 1:00 this afternoon, so it may not have a fairly even flow because i didn't go back over what i wrote. But the likely hood that anyone has made it down this far is very doubtable. If you have, and you would like to talk about this stuff with me, i'm definitely open to what others have to say.