MORNING MANNA 2-4-23
ANGER MANAGEMENT
“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:”- Eph.4:24
Pastor Tom Goodman said,”I read about a woman whose neighbor played his music way too loud in the apartment below her. Finally, she had enough and yelled at him to turn it down. He just taunted her by banging a broom handle on his ceiling. This infuriated her so much that she jumped up in the air and slammed both feet on the floor.
Here’s why the altercation made the newspaper.The force of her landing broke both her legs about 4 inches below the kneecap.The moral of the story? When you lose your temper in a disagreement, it will leave you without a leg to stand on.
David needed help with his out-of-control rage at one point. Does that surprise you? I mean, David loved to write psalms about nimble deer and quiet waters and night skies. He was “a man after God’s own heart” who “served God’s purpose in his own generation” (1 Samuel 13:14 and Acts 13:36). And yet in 1 Samuel 25, we have an account of how he let anger get the best of him. Had Abigail not intervened, his rage would have led to disastrous consequences.
The story convicts me. No matter how much we love God, no matter how gentle we think we are, no matter how much we’ve grown spiritually, anger can get the best of us.Thankfully, the Bible is a wonderful Anger Management Manual”.
Remember this, when anger gets the best of you it brings out the worst in you!- HDS
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
Humble, Tx.
