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If someone insults you, God wants you to smile.  If someone stomps on you even seventy times seven, God asks you to forgive.  But you're angry because you have been wronged.  Why can't you indulge in angry bashing to even the score?  It helps to consider the price.

Anger is like a clogged artery in one's relationship with God and people.  Anger binges rarely accomplish God's purpose in your life or theirs.  Yet anger is a weapon for good or evil. 

Some anger is sinful, some is not.  But all anger needs to be purified by allowing God to search the wounded heart for half-truths, hidden motives, and shared blame.  Blindness hampers the angry one's insight.

Here are a couple tests you can give yourself: do you get angry most often about personal slights or over injustices against others?  Would your family members call you an angry person?  That is, would they say that you can't control your temper, that you tend to argue all the time, and that you lash out at the smallest criticism?  The Bible also distinguishes between feelings of anger and acting them out.  Anger range from simple annoyance to vexed to the point verbal and physical abuse.  And the Word of God challenges you that one day  is long enough to indulge this emotion.

Ask yourself, "Why am I so angry?"  Anger dims by pleading, "Lord, please change me!" 

Give yourself time to work through the trying affront and hand it over to God.  Anger does not dissipate overnight.

"Our anger can be a tremendous gift, if we dare to look at the feelings it covers up..the fears, hurts, resentments, and self-protective motives we work hard to keep out of sight, and to emerge as changed people."
Larry Crabb

"In your anger do not sin:  Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold."
Ephesians 4:26-27