The Lord created us to be separate from Himself, so that He could love us. He thus allows us to act contrary to His will -- to want what is evil and to believe what is false. When we accept the Lord, though -- by learning what's true and determining to live according to it -- we can let Him place inside us a love for what is good. That is our "inheritance.

5888. 'And do not have any anger in your eyes' means sadness in the spirit or understanding. This is clear from the meaning of 'anger' here as sadness, for the words used here are a kind of repetition expressing much the same as those they follow - 'do not be grieved' - by which anxiety in the heart or will is meant (for when an apparent repetition occurs in the Word, one expression has reference to the will, the other to the understanding; or what amounts to the same, one has reference to the good of love, the other to the truth of faith. The reason for this is the heavenly marriage, which is one of goodness and truth, present in every detail of the Word, dealt with in 683, 793, 801, 2173, 2516, 2712, 5502); and from the meaning of 'eyes' as the understanding, dealt with in 2701, 4403-4421, 4523-4534.