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Nnamdi Christopher Wallace <[email protected]>
Keep Your Anger in Check
The UCB Word For Today <[email protected]> 19 May 2016 at 02:03
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Keep Your Anger in Check
19 MAY 2016
‘A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.’
Proverbs 29:11 NIV (1984 Edition)
Anger is a God-ordained emotion, but it’s meant to be your servant instead ofyour master. So keep your temper on a lead. Any time you’re tempted to give in
to anger, stop and ask yourself two questions: 1) Is this really worth my anger?
Much of the time you’re working only with partial information. Furthermore, when
you view someone in the context of their best qualities rather than their worst
ones, you usually respond differently. 2) Is this the best way, place, and time to
express my anger? It’s hard to ask yourself this in the heat of the moment, but
your emotions can be tamed and your temper can be trained. The Bible says one
of the fruits of the Spirit is ‘self-control’ (Galatians 5:23 NLT). When someone
wrongs you, the question isn’t are you big enough to do something about it; the
question is are you big enough not to? The story’s told of two brothers who got
into an awful fight and their mother ran upstairs to break it up. When she asked
how the fight got started, the older brother said, ‘It all started when he hit me
back!’ If you’ve an anger management problem, write this Scripture down, carry it
with you and try to read it before you lose your temper: ‘Sensible people control
their temper; they earn respect by overlooking wrongs’ (Proverbs 19:11 NLT). You
say, ‘That’s hard to do!’ Yes, and you’ll never do it perfectly. But if you do it more
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often God will be glorified, and you’ll feel better too.
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