The apostle James offers better counsel than you’ll ever receive on a psychiatrist’s couch. He writes, “Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God” (James 1:19–20). In his heart, Moses must have known that. Deep within, he must have been aware that his own raging temper could not advance the righteous cause of a holy God. Yet through the years, he never allowed his patient Lord to slay that destructive monster within, and in the end it rose up and consumed him.
