How would you feel if the one you loved took your thoughtful, expensive, one-of-a-kind Valentine’s gift back to the store and exchanged it for a lousy pack of cigarettes?  You might be inclined to be annoyed.  One might even say you had a right to be a bit miffed!  Your anger would have at least two catalysts.  First, the exchange cheapens your amazing gift to them.  Second, your love for the person means that it matters all the more how they respond to you.  God’s anger is like this.  First, we are guilty of trading in His glorious reality and presence for something false and foolish.  Second, He cares because He loves.  If God didn’t care about us, it wouldn’t matter what we did or didn’t do.  God’s anger, His righteous wrath, may trouble us and confuse us, but it also reminds us that we have been given something supremely valuable from Someone who is forever faithful.