Controlling Your Anger

Controlling Your Anger

“Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.”
Ephesians 4:31

In today’s devotional I would like to talk to you about controlling anger. I believe that Satan uses anger as much as any other device to keep us distracted from following the word of God, as Satan can use our sins—especially those, like anger, that are against others—to bring about greater evil. The result of anger is bad, as it often brings hurt and destruction. The inability to control anger has been the ruin of many marriages. Anger can bring rebellious teens to turn away from God because of their parent’s anger. The news is full of cruelty and even murder that comes from the inability of people to control their anger. God wants each of us to get rid of all our anger, and has given us many scriptures such as the one above. So often anger appears in our lives when we have been hurt or injured by someone, and our immediate response is that we want the offender to hurt too; we want our revenge. Anger is the weak person’s imitation of strength. When you have been hurt, wounded and feel weak, anger is what people turn to as it makes them feel strong, however that strength is an imitation, as it doesn’t deliver what they really want, and usually they always regret what happens through that artificial strength. “Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2nd Corinthians 12:10. It is only through our trust in God, that He shows Himself strong through us. We won’t need imitation strength if we learn to appreciate our weakness, and trust in God to deliver us from our anger.