“And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple…. and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables...” John 2:15
I received a one-sentence email from my friend, John Gooch today. It was a short reply to an email I recently sent him. It read: “I think the phrase ‘righteous indignation’ has been lost in this country.” As I sat staring at the sentence, I thought: “He’s right…. but if he’d left the word ‘righteous’ out, he’d been all wrong”, because America is madder than she’s ever been.
The solution to our anger is not to abolish it, but to righteously direct it. With righteous indignation, Jesus drove the money changers from the temple but the loudest voices in America today are those angry with righteousness itself. They’re not mad at those who desecrate God’s temple but at God and what’s taught in His temple.
We’re going to have to get angry at the godless secularism that’s turning us into a carbon copy of Western Europe. We should direct our anger toward those who kill our babies instead of those who kill our baby turtles. Greenpeace is mad at those who threaten endangered animal species while our innocent babies aren’t even safe in the womb of their own mothers. We should be hot as a pistol at the ACLU, the NOW, Hollywood, and everyone else who is destroying the morality that’s made America what she is. But America isn’t going to get righteously indignant… till she stops letting righteousness itself make her so mad.