Mark 3:5 “After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He said to the man, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.”

Parents, do you tell your kids all the time to not get angry? We tend to do that a lot. We don’t want our children to be mad at someone. We don’t want them to lash out at another person to try to hurt them. That is good parenting. We want them to love others.

But you can see from this verse that there are times when anger is justified. Jesus was angry with those who opposed Him healing this man in the story just because it was the Sabbath. The word “anger” there really means anger. But it also has the definition of anger that God has toward sin. That’s what should anger us!

We should teach our children that unrighteousness should anger us. Things done to others to harm them should anger us. Abortion should anger us. You get the picture. However, notice Jesus’ reaction. He didn’t lash out at the crowd. He simply healed the man.

We need to teach our children that we should go about doing good in the very presence of those who hate us and God. We should bless others despite their actions. We should follow the example of the Master. Be angry but sin not. Now that’s a lesson worth teaching!