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#Sunday30th_june_2023
THEME: ANGER IN CHRISTIANS.

“Anger” is commonly defined as “a strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility.” Medically, we are told anger is a natural response to a perceived threat against our well-being or position.

The response causes the body to release adrenaline, muscles to tighten, and heart rate and blood pressure to increase.

Mental health professionals advise that it’s not healthy to keep anger pent up. It’s better to express our feelings of anger through reasonable discussion or a productive, helpful, or healing activity.
Paul, in Galatians 5:20-21, instructed “the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.” In 1 Corinthians 13, we are directed that love is patient and kind and does not dishonor others and is not easily angered. It can be reasoned that anger is contrary to charity, if it is spontaneously meant to dishonor our neighbor. Proverbs 15:18 tells us a “hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.”

The Bible seems to place anger as the last response to the circumstances of life. The believer is to be a peacemaker and find a solution before allowing an incident or conflict to escalate.

In Colossians 3:8, Paul told the church, “But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.” Paul interestingly groups in “anger” with “slander” and “filthy language” as actions or feelings which are to be laid aside as dead weights and filthy garments at the time of salvation.
In James 1:19-20, we are told, “My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.”

Finally learn to control your anger as a Christian.
SHALOM.

Reg. SRM-Production.