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podcast with others. So we're in the book of Psalms, CJ. Today we're covering Psalm 81 through

Psalm 85. And we're going to focus in on one particular Psalm. Which one is that?

Exactly. We're going to focus on Psalm 83. And today I want us to consider what it means to have righteous anger.

So the psalmist is angry because people are plotting and scheming evil. And oftentimes

we might think that the Christian thing to do is to ignore evil because we know that God has

it in the end. So we end up being apathetic.

We end up sort of turning a blind eye or ignoring it. And I think this psalmist, and I think

as we're going to see that that's just not really the good Christian response or maybe the best

Christian response. So our psalmist, instead he pleads with God. He says, God, do not keep silent, do not be deaf,

do not be quiet. In other words, act and listen to our pleas and do something about the evil

that we are witnessing. And even more than that, in pretty extreme language, the psalmist says

something like, as a fire burns a forest, as a flame blazes

through mountains, so pursue them, that is the evil ones, with your tempest and terrify them with

your storm. Let them be put to shame and terrified forever. Let them perish in disgrace.

And I think probably for a lot of Christians, including me, this is probably alarming

language to think about talking about evildoers in this way.

But I think what the psalmist does is it shows us that the anger that we do have needs to be

directed towards God, trusting in him to deal with it rather than being apathetic or rather than taking things

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