“Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me”
~ Captain Ahab from Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Human wrath is a cunning and volatile phenomena. Hate is repressed, shaped, molded, and loaded within the tongue like a cannon ball moments from ignition (James 3:1-9).
There is a classic novel known to many titled Moby Dick. It is a novel told from the perspective a sailor named Ishmael who boards a whaling ship under the command of a vengeful man named Captain Ahab. The tale follows Ahab’s quest for vengeful quest against a notorious whale who made a meal of his leg.
Following the tale we find many morals within the story but one shows the vanity of pursuing wrath. In the end, the pure in heart survived, Ishmael, and Ahab was consumed.
Unbridled and unrighteous anger leads to demise in the present and for the unbeliever can lead to the wrong side of eternity. What injustice committed against you, know that vengeance is the…
