ANGER
GOING THROUGH SOME OF MY STUFF I FOUND AN ISSUE I MAY HAVE CREATED FOR MYSELF (I THINK) OR MAYBE I PREPARED TO TEACH ABOUT IT MANY YEARS AGO, I REALLY CANT REMEMBER NOW. ALL I CAN REMEMBER FOR NOW IS I HAVE BEEN BATTLING WITH ANGER FOR A WHILE (A LONG TIME) I STILL FEEL STRINGS OF IT SOMETIMES AND I THINK
MANY YEARS AGO I WAS LED TO WRITE ON IT. I WENT THROUGH IT TODAY AND WOW I WAS STARSTRUCK AT WHAT I HAD WRITTEN YEARS AGO. IT HELPED ME AT THAT TIME AND IT IS GOING TO HELP ME FROM NOW ON. I HOPE THIS MESSAGE BLESSES SOMEONE, IF IT DOES PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SHARE AND RESTEEM AS LOVING IS SHARING. I'LL LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IN THE COMMENT SECTION SO AS TO KNOW YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH ANGER AND HOW YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MANAGE IT. ALRIGHT GUYS LETS DIVE IN.
Another name for "ANGER" is "BRIEF MADNESS". A state when you become mentally insane and abnormal. i will like to also call it a state in time when all nerve cells forcefully become active.
Today, We shall be looking at a key text which aims to help us look at this phenomenon from GODS point of view.
JAMES 1:19 "WHEREFORE,
MY BRETHREN, LET EVERY MAN BE SWIFT TO HEAR (QUICKLY AND EASILY UNDERSTAND);AND SLOW TO SPEAK (SPEAK WHEN NECCESARY); AND SLOW TO WRATH (SLOW TOWARDS ANGER AND ABLE
TO CONTROL TEMPERAMENTS)"
its emphas sis is not being slow to speak ot wrath, rather its emphasis is living out a righteous life that pleases God. MICAH 6:8 tells us GOD requires certain things of us, so as to live righteously "O PEOPLE, THE LORD HAS ALREADY TOLD YOU WHAT IS GOOD AND THIS IS WHAT HE REQUIRES: TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT, TO LOVE MERCY AND TO WALK HUMBLY
WITH GOD"
EPHESIANS 4:26-27 SAYS "BE YE ANGRY AND SIN NOT; LET NOT THE SUN GO DOWN UPON YOUR WRATH; NEITHER GIVE PLACE TO THE DEVIL" THE NEW LIVING TRANSLATION PUTS IT IN A BETTER LIGHT "DONT SIN BY LETTING THE ANGER GAIN CONTROL OVER YOU" DONT LET THE SUN GO DOWN WHILE YOU ARE STILL ANGRY, FOR ANGER GIVES
A MIGHTY FOOTHOLD TO THE DEVIL
HERE THE BIBLE IS TALKING ABOUT
A. UNCONTROLLED ANGER
B. UNCONTROLLED ANGER CAN LEAD YOU INTO SIN
C. GOD IS UNHAPPY WHEN WE STAY ANGRY
D. UNCONTROLLED AND PROLONGED ANGER CAN GIVE AN OPENING TO THE DEVIL INTO OUR MINDS AND CONCEIVE MANY OTHER EVILS E.G STRIFE, MALICE, QUARRELS, SNUBS ETCETERA.
ANYONE WHO SEEKS TO WALK IN RIGHTEOUSNESS MUST LEARN TO DEAL WITH ANGER. IT IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO PRODUCE A RIGHTEOUS LIFE GOD DESIRES IF WE ARE EASILY CONSUMED
EMOTIONALLY BY ANGER. SO PUT ANGER UNDER WATCH BEFORE IT GETS OUT OF HAND
JAMES 1:20 TELLS US THAT "WRATH (ANGER) OF MAN WORKETH NOT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD" THAT IS, UNCONTROLLED ANGER WILL GET IN THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUS LIVING AND THIS CAN
HINDER FRUIT BEARING.
PROVERBS 14:17 TELLS US THE OUTCOME OF ANGER OR QUICK TEMPERED MEN
- A QUICK TEMPERED MAN DOES FOOLISH THINGS (PROVERBS 16:32)
- HE WHO IS SLOW TO ANGER IS BETTER THAN THE MIGHTY, AND HE WHO RULES HIS SPIRIT THAN HE WHO CAPTURES A CITY (ECCLESIASTES 7:9)
- DONT BE QUICK TEMPERED, FOR ANGER IS THE FRIEND OF FOOLS (PROVERBS 29:22)
- AN ANGRY MAN STIRS UP DISSENSSION AND A HOT TEMPERED ONE COMMITS MANY SINS (PROVERBS 29:22)
IN OUR WORLD TODAY, WE SEE PEOPLE PROUDLY CALL THEMSELVES MAD MEN OR THERES THIS SAYING THAT THERES A STRAIN OF MADNESS IN EVERY HUMAN. SOME EVEN CALL IT "ONE MINUTE MADNESS", MOST TIMES THIS IS EXHIBITED WHEN WE GET UPSET, DIFFERENT PEOPLE WITH A VARIETY OF HOW THEY HANDLE ANGER. BUT LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS "A QUICK TEMPERED MAN DOES FOOLISH THINGS" SO WE SEE PEOPLE WHO ARE ANGRY SMASH, BREAK AND TRASH THINGS WHICH ARE OF VALUE TO THEM WHEN THEY ARE ANGRY, THIS IS NOT A FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. IT IS OF THE DEVIL FOR THE DEVIL IS OF THE SPIRIT OF DESTRUCTION. FOR SOME THEY USE THEIR MOUTHS AS WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION, WORDS THAT CAN PIERCE A MANS SOUL, DESTROYING HIS SPIRIT; SO MANY TIMES THIS WORDS COME BACK IN REGRETS. FOR SOME ANGER MEANS UNFASTENED LIPS, WITH NO CONTROL ON RAGE WHICH ENDS UP IN FATAL REGRETABLE ACCIDENTS BECAUSE OF UNCONTROLLED UNSAFE WORDS. UNFASTENED LIPS NO MATTER HOW SPIRIT FILLED YOU ARE AS A FOLLOWER OF GOD THROUGH JESUS OUR LORD CAN NOT (DOES NOT) PRODUCE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.
LET US NOT BE QUICK TO FORGET THAT "ANGER" IS ONE LETTER SHORT OF "D"ANGER. IT DOESNT END WELL. IT DOESNT.
SOMETIMES WHEN ANGRY OR ABOUT TO BE PISSED, I TELL MYSELF "I AM A SLAVE TO WHOEVER HAS CONTROL OVER MY EMOTION" AND YES I AM NO ONES SLAVE SO I DONT GET ANGRY SOMEIIMES IT WORKS FOR ME, IT COULD WORK FOR YOU. TRUTH IS YOU ARE A SLAVE TO WHOEVER HAS CONTROL OVER YOUR EMOTIONS. DONT BE SOMEONES SLAVE. BE ANGRY BUT SIN NOT.
ANGER RUINS LIFE-LONGRELATIONSHIPS, DONT LET IT END YOURS TODAY!
I HOPE I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BLESS YOU WITH THIS SHORT MESSAGE. GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU.
