So I just got done watching the NOOMA entitled “Store” (#16). Here is a mini-review/synopsis.
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Bell opens up the video with a short summary of why we get angry. Most of the time it is because our expectations are not met or our feelings get hurt, but no matter what, it is an emotional thing. The thing about is it that it only matters what you do with it. Do you act justly or selfishly? He gos on to talk about in Mark 3 when Jesus gets angry at the Pharisees for telling him not heal a man on the Sabbath. The greek form of the word anger in this passage is a temporary form. So it comes upon Jesus and then it leaves him. Some things are worth getting angry about. Like injustices. God is love and when a human being is abused or taken advantage of there is going to be a divine anger that identifies with this person. So Jesus tells the man to stretch out his crippled hand and he is healed. Jesus did something about his anger to make a difference.
We live in a world in which people get angry about things that do not matter and people don’t get angry about things that do matter. “Some people are looking for a fight, because they aren’t in one.” When you find away to figure out what makes you angry and fix it, that is another way to model ourselves after Jesus. By changing the things that make us angry; the things that we wonder why God let’s them happen. We go out and we channel our anger into change. Just like Jesus did.
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