Contemplative Bible Reading

James 1:20 (New Living Translation)

20 Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.

Who put this sentence in the Bible? Who slipped it in? I don’t like this. It makes me angry!

Note how I write that “this MAKES ME angry.” I don’t become angry, something else makes me angry. Silly me. And well uh er I go back to, “Who slipped this into the Bible?”

God, please help me in my unbelief.

Rereading this, perhaps you may not hear that I become angry often and that takes me away from the righteousness God intended me to have. I put myself between myself and God and I shouldn’t do that. And I really need to stop that foolishness.