The Destruction of Anger

Do you lose your temper easily? When someone hurts you or makes fun of you, do you get angry? Do you fight back, verbally or physically?

Read Matthew 5:21-26

We all handle certain situations differently, but it’s because we all make a choice to carry out certain actions. You can CHOOSE to get angry about it, or you can take a deep breath, calm down, and know that you are doing the right thing by not saying or doing anything mean. Although we might think of murder as way worse than just lying, but God sees sin as sin. There isn’t really a big difference between murder and lying in the eyes of God; they are both sins. Calling someone a fool, stupid, or any other names in which it may hurt the other person is a way of attacking the other person’s character. Even if the person may not show that it hurts, it’s never a good idea to harm another’s identity.
James 2:8 “If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’ you are doing well.”
According to the Royal Law of Love, you should love each other. So the first best thing to do would be to reconcile. Reconcile with the person that might have something against you. In the passage, no reconciliation led to the people going to court, and then prison. So if you think that’s bad, how do you think God thinks of you? God is the ultimate and final judge, only He may judge your character, not your parents, nor friends, nor family members. And if you cannot reconcile and love one another, do you really love God?
1 John 4:19-21 “We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar, for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him; whoever loves God must also love his brother.”
We were created in the image of God, so shouldn’t we represent God through ways of love rather than anger? Take some time to think about who you might have hurt or who you might have a grudge against. Did you think you were doing the right thing?