Date: Wednesday, 18th December, 2024
Text: Proverbs 22:24-25
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
Anger if left uncontrolled could cause a permanent irreparable damage in the lives of its victims. In some homes you would see one of the spouses destroying the property they suffered and laboured to gather. A labour of twenty years can be destroyed within a minute of uncontrolled anger.
The story was once told of a man who just bought a brand new car and was in high spirits. The little daughter out of sheer naivety went to write something on the glass of the car. The father saw it and was so furious to the extent that he took a sharp object and cut off the fingers of the girl.
Eventually, the girl was rushed to the hospital; the father’s eyes had cleared. Later on he went to look closely to check what the daughter wrote on his car, it read, “Daddy I Love You.” He broke into tears and apologized to the daughter but the damage had been done.
One day, the little daughter asked him saying, “Daddy, when will my fingers grow back?” The father could not bear the guilt anymore and not too long after, he committed suicide.
The word of God says, “Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.”- Ecclesiastes 7:9
Proverbs 16:32 says, “He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.”
Again the word of God says, “Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man do not go, lest you learn his ways and set a snare for your soul- Proverbs 22:24-25.
Action Nugget: Ask the Holy Spirit to help you as you subdue your temper under His control.