I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Ezekiel 9-12.

The thing which struck me right away was that before God sent His agents out to punish Jerusalem, He sent a messenger to mark those who grieved over the sins being committed in the city.  Then He told His agents to kill everyone without that mark.  As I read this it strikes me that God expects us to be saddened by the sins we see rather than angered by them.  This does not mean that we should never be angered by sin.  However, more than anything else, sin should make us sad.  We should be saddened by the harm which the sinner does to themselves with their sin, and saddened that they fail to even see that harm.  Yes, there is room for us to be angered by the harm they may be doing to others, but even then we should feel sadness for the sinner.