2453) I’ve mentioned before that there are verses in the Bible that are so familiar to me that I often skip over them and study others. However, I have caught myself doing this and try to look a bit deeper into the familiar and discover something more.

Ephesians 5:26-27 are some of my “familiar” verses. They speak of being angry and sin not. Today, I looked closer at verse 27. It tells us why anger is dangerous.

Paul simply says that being angry can give “opportunity to the devil,” (ESV) What kind of opportunity?

When we are overcome with anger (and most likely any emotion), we become vulnerable because we are not on guard anywhere else.

Anger, in itself, isn’t wrong, but it can consume our entire lives, and Satan jumps in there to keep us focused on the object of our anger and not on the things God wants us to be doing for him, day by day. Satan wants to set us up to be super focused on what has happened to us so we won’t be focused on what God wants for us to do.