1.) It is birthed from pride. A desire to be accepted, liked, admired, or understood. Pride wants to be recognized as right and have its ego stroked. When it’s not stroked anger is born.
2.) It is filled with resentment, feelings of rejection or being treated unjustly, or a desire to cling to our own “rights.”
3.) Unrighteous anger is dominated by egotism. Ask yourself why you are angry to find out if you are an egotistical person.
4.) It is a lack of humility.
5.) Someone who loses peace often and becomes angry or quarrelsome is overcome by some passion, whether self-centeredness, narcissism, pride, or a puffed up ego. Unrighteous anger springs from a heart that is all too concerned with getting its own way.
6.) It is an anger directed toward others, not toward demons and evil (which is what our anger should be directed toward). It is directed toward getting our own way, instead of submitting to God’s way. It is directed toward being loved, instead of giving love.
7.) It is selfish and unloving.
8.) Anger breaks relationships to pieces and adds another brick to the wall.
9.) It is a lack of self-control that often causes us to later regret our actions.
10.) Forgiveness, confession, and repentance, are the killers of unrighteous anger.
