Good Morning Peeps! How are you doing this Tuesday morning, good I hope? Are you having a good work week so far, I sure hope so? Have a good and very Blessed day! - May God Bless You and Yours In 2018 and Beyond!!! - “Are YOU 100% sure, that you are Saved and headed to Heaven when you die? Are you sure YOUR name IS written in the Heavenly “Book of Life?” Is there absolutely not a shadow of a doubt in your mind, that your Salvation is already secured and you’re just waiting on the good Lord to call you home to be with Him? If the answer is “No, Not Sure, I Think So, Maybe, or Probably, then you need to get busy right now working on fixing that. You need to be totally sure where your Soul will spend eternity!” And AMEN goes right here….
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“This is the day that the Lord has made! I will rejoice and be glad in it!”
“Don’t sin by letting anger control you.”
Ephesians 4:26 NLT
Anger is a doorway through which your flesh proudly walks.
My thoughts and comments today are about “Holy and Unholy Anger.”
Anger is an emotion that should have a warning sign, “Danger, handle with caution.” Anger is best in the smallest of doses and managed with the greatest of caution. It is an emotion that is not necessarily sinful, but God places some wise restrictions on it. “Don’t sin by letting anger gain control over you. Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry, for anger gives a mighty foothold to the devil.” Ephesians 4:26-27 NLT. Unchecked, anger damages – even ruins – lives, families, and friendships.
The emotion itself is not wrong, but the origin of anger and manner of expressing it can go horribly wrong. Anger is a doorway through which the worst of your flesh proudly walks. Anger is unrighteous if inconsistent with God’s nature and ways, does not serve God’s purpose for yours or others’ lives, or surrenders control of your passions, words, and actions to something other than the Holy Spirit. Anger begets violence and can be destructive, whether verbal, emotional, or physical. See Genesis 4:6-7 NLT.
Yet God is described in the Bible as being angry. He was angry when Israel turned from God to idols. But know this about God: “His anger is but for a moment; His favor is for life.” Psalm 30:5. “The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.” Psalm 103:8. “. . full of compassion, slow to anger.” Psalm 145:8. “. . slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm.” Joel 2:13. Anger, when balanced by virtues of God’s character, will remain righteous in its expression. The discipline of spiritual restraint controls the emotion of anger without sinning.
Righteous anger is in harmony with God’s emotions of strong displeasure with sin and wrong. There are many things that should make good people righteously angry. You should not be passive about wrongdoing, such as when the powerful take advantage of the weak, when the rich abuse the poor, when the wicked prey on the helpless. Those things make God righteously angry, and should arouse a holy passion for fairness and righteousness in you.
Sadly, most of the anger with which you will contend is not about God or others, but is aroused when your own will has been denied or your rights have been ignored. In that regard, this is God’s counsel: “My dear brothers and sisters, be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. Your anger can never make things right in God’s sight.” James 1:19-20 NLT. That’s good, practical advice.
When you take time to really listen and restrain your words, anger is less likely, more readily managed, and expressed profitably. Solomon wisely said, “It is better to be patient than powerful; it is better to have self-control than to conquer a city.” Proverbs 16:32. Nothing could be truer, or wiser, or more practical than that. Anger is an emotional symptom of losing self-control in a situation.
My prayer for you today is that you will handle your strong passions with caution.
K-Love’s Encouraging Words:
I restore the crushed spirit of the humble and revive the courage of those with repentant hearts.
Isaiah 57:15 (NLT)
Therefore, it was necessary for him to be made in every respect like us, his brothers and sisters, so that he could be our merciful and faithful High Priest before God. Then he could offer a sacrifice that would take away the sins of the people.
Hebrews 2:17 (NLT)
“Today, Choose to “Ride or Die” with Jesus Christ! Afterall, isn’t that exactly what He did for us on the Cross?”
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