Giving Place to the Devil

“Be ye angry, and sin not” (Eph. 4:2626Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: (Ephesians 4:26)). Righteous anger is communion with God in His indignation against evil (see Mark 3:55And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. (Mark 3:5)), but even if anger produced in us by the Holy Ghost is nursed, it will soon pass into a natural feeling, and thus we are told, “Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.” And then the injunction follows, “Neither give place to the devil.” To cherish a feeling against anyone is to give place to the devil.
J. G. Bellett