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I heard a story about a
little girl who would just lose it several times a day and she would display
what was inside her in dramatic fashion. Finally her mother gave her a hammer and a box
of nails, and told her that every time she lost her temper, she should go out
in the back yard a drive a nail into the fence.
The first day she drove 37
nails into the fence. The next day a few less, and on and on until one day she
came in and proudly announced that she did not have to drive any nails that
day. The next day she said the same thing and her mother told her to go and
remove a nail from the fence. This continued until one day she said there are
no more nails left in the fence. Her mother took her out to the fence and
congratulated her and then said; look at the holes that are left.
This lesson should speak to
all caring people for even though you repent and say I’m sorry there is still
the hole caused by the nail. Though you fill the hole with love it can only be
repaired, the scar remains.
People without a temper are
not as effective as those with it, but those who cannot control it come near to
being a negative in the kingdom of GOD.
You can look at the men of
GOD in the Old and New Testaments and you find they were men of temper. Moses did not control his anger and killed an
Egyptian man. He also let his anger get
away from him and broke the Ten Commandments.
Ex.32:19 It came about, as soon as Moses came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses' anger burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and shattered them at the foot of the mountain.
Jesus went
through the temple and ran all of those who were selling merchandise there out
of the temple;
Matt. 21:12“Jesus entered the temple and
drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables
of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.”
Jesus the Son
of God was flat out angry and it showed.
This is an age
where unrighteousness is rampant, and as Christians it is right to be angry
about this, but we must have a controlled anger and raise up a standard against
it.
Letting our
anger get out of control just plays into the hands of unrighteous people.
In dealing with
personal relationships, don’t let your anger be destructive. In dealing with unrighteous acts and deeds
let controlled anger strengthen your resolve to stand against it.
The time will
come when GOD no longer controls his anger and his judgment will fall upon
unrighteousness, and every mouth will be closed.
Deut. 32:35 Vengeance
is mine, and I will recompense; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and
their doom comes swiftly.
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