Handling Anger with the Grace of the Lord (Excerpted)

“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God: and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.  He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.”  (1 John 4:7 & 8)

God is love.  His love is your love; his love is my love; his love is our love.  However, because God is a spirit, he cannot physically nurture the full entity of our being – body, soul and spirit.  That is why he created others in a like image to fill that physical void.

The family was created as God’s surrogate to meet and satisfy those needs.    Is it any wonder, then, that the greatest source of anger emanates from the family structure? Absolutely not!

Somewhere in time, we have lost sight of the purpose for the family.  We, as a society have alienated, separated, castrated, disseminated, and disintegrated the family circle.  This is the Devil’s doomsday formula – first separate man from God, then eliminate the family and others around you, and, finally, destroy yourself. Scripture tells us that “no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper.”

Anger is a fuel the enemy uses to ignite an internal combustion in the human soul. Anger gradually destroys you, and those around you, without you even being aware that you are being destroyed.

I used to be upset with people when they stepped out of character and acted disdainfully in my presence, but thank God I have grown so much more now than then…so now I just bid them farewell and let them be on their way, because I have come to realize that they needed to move out of the space so that those who are ready, willing, and able can step in and do more than occupy space and syphon precious time…but work steadfastly to the glory of God and the greater benefit of his most arduous creation.

Be encouraged . . . for great is your faithfulness, and even greater still will be your rich reward.

“Difficult situations are opportunities for God to do things to us, or through us.”  Dave Meyer, Nuggets of Life.

The Lord is still in his counting house, and he has not forgotten you – or the promise that he made to you in the safety of his tabernacle.  He is holding you steadfast in righteousness, so that your feet will not wander from the pathway that leads to the promise of his eternal truth. (Scriptures of reference: Psalm 78:34-39 and Galatians 6:7-9)

“Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive of the promise.  For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and not tarry.” (Hebrews 10:35 & 36, KJV)