ANGER IS UNSUSTAINABLE!

Saturday, October 6, 2018

ANGER IS UNSUSTAINABLE!

James 1:19-20

19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

            Anger is both a fire and fuel. Given enough time and one will exhaust the other. Unless more fuel is added anger will subside over time and a period of normalcy will return. As an example remember that the nation that bombed our base at Pearl Harbor and brought about the wrath of nuclear anger now sells us our cars!

           Husbands and wives do not stay together just because they are so compatible but because they are stubbornly persistent in their relationship. Things get hot and then cool down. The real danger is that there will be unresolved damage caused by the anger.

           Be a ready listener! Be swift to hear. I suppose the greatest friends to anger are the closed mind and the open mouth. Both are dangerous and together they are furious.

           Be slow to speak! Not everything that forms in the mind should tumble out of the mouth. Consider how many arguments have been avoided by silence.

           The Amplified New Testament says if verse 20:  For man's anger does not promote the righteousness God [wishes and requires].  Ephesians 4:26 urges us to “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:”

Dear God, place an angel at my mouth and another to watch over my mind. AMEN