This verse unfolds three predictable outcomes of consistent pressure. When consistent pressure is applied to milk, you get butter. When consistent pressure is applied to the nose, you get blood. And when consistent pressure is applied to anger, you get controversy and strife. So, what does it mean for pressure to be applied to anger? Have you ever experienced a conversation where you weren’t positive, but you thought you were being slandered or insulted in an indirect way? At the time, you are a little confused, and you are able to give the individual the benefit of the doubt. You think about this conversation on the way home, and eventually, it has completely consumed your thoughts. By the time the next day rolls around you are convinced that the individual was harshly slandering or insulting you, and it was only your good will, that allowed you to ever give them the benefit of the doubt. You either begin to act coldly toward the accused slanderer, or you begin to treat them harshly in retaliation. Eventually things come to a head in a nasty argument, or the relationship dies because of two cold shoulders. Either way, when we ignore Christ’s encouragement of not letting the sun go down on our wrath, we allow our wrath to build pressure and become destructive. This is not a mysterious happening, but a very predictable outcome. How much pressure filled wrath are you carrying around today? Perhaps the better question is, what do you plan on doing about it?