If we don’t deal with anger properly, it can lead to big problems in: our walk with Christ, our relationships with others, our careers, and other areas of our lives. “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.” - James 1:19-20. Today’s blog entry is “Dealing With Anger”.
“He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.” – Proverbs 14:29
Have you ever responded to something that happened in your life with anger, and after learning more information about the situation, wish you had responded differently? For instance, say person A was supposed to meet up with person B at an agreed upon time. After about 30 minutes of waiting for person B (with no response to phone calls), person A is furious and leaves the place they were supposed to meet. Person A then proceeds to bash person B on social networks. Later in the day, person A finally does hear from person B, and finds out that person B’s car broke down, and they were stranded for hours, they weren’t able to call because they were in an area where they couldn’t get a signal on their phone. After hearing about what happened, person A feels really bad about the way they responded....It’s a good idea for us to have a good understanding about a situation before we jump to conclusions.
“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.” – Ephesians 4:26-27
There are also times in life where people may intentionally do things that are wrong, which can result in us getting angry. For example, say you have two students that are working on a group assignment for a class. Student A has been doing 99 % of the work (student A really wants to get a good grade, and picks up student B’s slack without even complaining), student B has shown very little interest in the assignment. However, when they go to turn in the assignment, student B lies to the teacher to make it seem they did more work than Student A, and even calls student A lazy. This obviously upsets student A, however instead of hurling insults at student B, or threating to fight student B; Student A calmly (but thoroughly) explains what really happened to the teacher, and provides the teacher with the computer document files (which student B was unable to produce). Student A goes on to receive proper credit for the assignment, while student B receives no credit.
It’s important that we keep our emotions in check, even if people do us wrong. We shouldn’t allow another person to get us to act out in a sinful way. We live in a fallen world, and while we may face conflicts throughout are lives, we can take comfort in the fact that God will never leave us. So as we continue to live for Jesus, let us make a conscience effort to respond to life’s situations in a way that Honor’s God.
“But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.” – Colossians 3:8
“He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.” – Proverbs 14:29
Have you ever responded to something that happened in your life with anger, and after learning more information about the situation, wish you had responded differently? For instance, say person A was supposed to meet up with person B at an agreed upon time. After about 30 minutes of waiting for person B (with no response to phone calls), person A is furious and leaves the place they were supposed to meet. Person A then proceeds to bash person B on social networks. Later in the day, person A finally does hear from person B, and finds out that person B’s car broke down, and they were stranded for hours, they weren’t able to call because they were in an area where they couldn’t get a signal on their phone. After hearing about what happened, person A feels really bad about the way they responded....It’s a good idea for us to have a good understanding about a situation before we jump to conclusions.
“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.” – Ephesians 4:26-27
There are also times in life where people may intentionally do things that are wrong, which can result in us getting angry. For example, say you have two students that are working on a group assignment for a class. Student A has been doing 99 % of the work (student A really wants to get a good grade, and picks up student B’s slack without even complaining), student B has shown very little interest in the assignment. However, when they go to turn in the assignment, student B lies to the teacher to make it seem they did more work than Student A, and even calls student A lazy. This obviously upsets student A, however instead of hurling insults at student B, or threating to fight student B; Student A calmly (but thoroughly) explains what really happened to the teacher, and provides the teacher with the computer document files (which student B was unable to produce). Student A goes on to receive proper credit for the assignment, while student B receives no credit.
It’s important that we keep our emotions in check, even if people do us wrong. We shouldn’t allow another person to get us to act out in a sinful way. We live in a fallen world, and while we may face conflicts throughout are lives, we can take comfort in the fact that God will never leave us. So as we continue to live for Jesus, let us make a conscience effort to respond to life’s situations in a way that Honor’s God.
“But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.” – Colossians 3:8