Thoughts for the day - 3/4/18
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry
James 1:19
In keeping with the listen more and speak less theme from yesterday, our brother James adds "and slow to become angry". Anger serves you not, it tears and rips relationships, it makes constructive communication nearly impossible, it invites fear, depression and anxiety by all participants willing and otherwise. It destroys lives!
No one controls your emotions other than you. If you are angered, it is because you chose to be so or accepted the invitation to do so. Inputs are always present, how you react to them is your choice. Do you accept this invitation to be manipulated by someone or something else or do you find a constructive emotion that serves, not destroys?
Today, when that input arrives that seeks to anger you and manipulate you, ask yourself, is this input from our Lord? If not, need I give myself to it and let it fill me or do I let the Spirit of the Lord fill me only. The choice is yours and yours alone ... I pray we choose wisely.
Many Blessings.
Craig
Somebody famous once said 10% of what happens to you in life, you cannot control. The other 90% of what happens, only you and you alone control. While this appears to be true, it cannot be argued that anger is a very explosive emotion and has a very short fuse to boot. Most often it goes out of control before we even know what's going on. For this reason, we, on our own, will always find our efforts in controlling anger (or the 90% of what happens to our life for that matter), ending up in futility.
Saying we should learn to love and be patient and be understanding etc. are all good. But without divine guidance and intervention these will all be to naught. We need the Holy Spirit to work in us to overcome our emotions. We need to pray and pray even harder that God, through the Holy Spirit, will give us the grace and the resolve to choose the right path.
P.U.S.H. - Pray Until Something Happens!
Yes, Yes!
There was a time in my life where anger easily took its liberty with me and the result was rarely useful. As much as I tried to control this later in life, it still could present itself. Once I gave this to our Lord, anger is a truly a rare and uncommon emotion.
This was a healing from the Father and not of my doing.
Love the PUSH!
Blessing there in the warm waters of paradise!
You are very fortunate then my friend. I have still a long ways to go with my struggle towards overcoming this. I'll need a megadose of these Thoughts to help me along with the Spirit : )
Blessings to you too. Still must he cold over there I suppose.
If only ... the truth is that about 80 - 90% of the time we act out our genetic programming.
It is preposterous to believe that our reason can control everything and thus give us the choice. We have been evolving for millions of years before acquiring conscience and reason. In order to survive the lions of the African savannah we needed to be quick and maybe sometimes angry.
I can't say precisely what is the adaptative benefit of becoming angry but if it had none, it would have likely not been selected as strongly as to become a trait of the whole human population. Maybe it will disappear if the world we live in continues to adversely select anger for another million years or so.
But anger certainly has a function. If you don't have kids you are excused for not having watched the Angry Birds movie. But I watched it yesterday and I can only confirm its main message: sometimes angry is more than just good, sometimes it is salutary !
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Thank you my friend for the deep and thoughtful reply.
I have kids, now grown and yes they were indeed a true blessing and as I learned not to be angered for their actions which I perceived as being counter to my dictates or to themselves, our relationship improved to the point there was never reason to be angry.
Have a truly blessed day!
I have a questions: Can anger be suppressed?
Is it from God or man?
Knowing that it is very dangerous because a person can not express his feelings and output and thus accumulate negative feelings within the self translated into a high pressure image of depression .... etc.
and Beginning to issue aggressive behavior against others and inability to establish successful social relations.
Yes, anger can certainly be suppressed and it almost always should be.
There is a difference in being anger and be open about your feelings. Sharing your feelings openly and honestly is constructive and healing. Outburst of anger are not.
Thanks for the answer.
Greetings!
Our reaction to every impulse is a choice, as you described. Yet, we still let our flawed selves be baited into negative thoughts or getting angry if we do not keep our focus on loving our brothers and sisters like the Lord loves us all, no matter how badly we behave or let Him down. Once again, we must all seek to be a little bit more like our Father, for we will never be as forgiving and loving as He is, but he is the greatest role model that we will ever have for how we should live our lives.
There is no doubt that it takes great self control not to be angered or upset by people who often intend exactly this. So as you have said, I find Jesus's examples to be an absolute tool in holding steady in my response. Knowing it is the Lord or them who gets to influence me, I choose Jesus.
Not sure how you get here so fast after I hit the submit button, but I certainly enjoy hearing back from you each day!
Absolutely! Haha yes, sometimes I'm some hours late, but I usually am on Steemit before going to work in the mornings, and just happened to see the post at the top of my feed today when I opened up. Great first post to see and get the chance to read, so it worked out well!
Verily the anger is from the devil and indeed the devil is created from fire, while fire can be extinguished by water. Therefore, if one of you is angry, let wash your face and your head.
I tried this method a lot.. and it's working. Have a wonderful bounty brother.
Indeed, anger is one of Satan's most potent weapons against the innocent. Paired with hatred, this concoction destroys.
I'm so thankful you have found a way not to let anger be in control.
Blessings!
Thanks for sharing... God bless you..
And to you as well. May your day be full of joy!
Your sure right sir,
Mostly, we tend to regret actions taken when in an angered state..
For me this little trick works everytime am angry:- I either take a walk or count to 10 before saying something. This helps me reason before answering or taking action...
Really missed your inspiring post as my phone screen went bad, had to order for the screen cus is not available in my country and its to arrive tomorrow...
Just had to borrow a phone and come here to read your post cus I really miss them...
Remain blessed sir
That is wise of you to take a moment to pause before speaking. You have done well if you can do this always.
Glad to have you back, hopefully you will have your phone back soon as well.
May you day be full of blessings!
@bycoleman Anger is always the bad thing. Taking decision when you are angry it always not acceptable. We should take control of our anger. We also should be slow when we are talking to other people.
May Almighty Bless You @bycoleman
And to you this day as well.
A man who can control himself when angry is wise.
Anything done in anger is rarely good. We are controlled by a force which we can't explain and when it is gone, we would have said or done something so damaging... And we usually can't undo it.
One powerful text is Ecclesiastes 7:9 which says "Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools."(KJV)
So true, so very true. I cannot think of a time when words I have said in anger have returned useful results without more negative connotations then positive, yet without the Holy Spirit's help, I would return to this easily.
Be blessed and thank you for your fine insights.
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