"ANGER"

Welcome back and today we begin a new study. This is a topic that many, if not all, of us deal with in life at one point or other. The subject today is that of ANGER!!

First of all, let's ask the question, 'what is anger?' Anger is a feeling or an emotion that tells a person that they are hurt and that they do not want to be hurt. The dictionary defines it this way; "a strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism."
Anger is about something that has come our way that we do not want. When a person learns not to react to anger but rather look at it as a mirror, it then identifies what that person does want.

We do not often look at anger as a gift, but it is a God-given emotion. This "Gift of Anger" is the ability to be able to go after what we want instead of fighting with what we don’t want that has come our way. An anger problem is any anger-related behavior (whether verbal, physical, or emotional) that is hurtful to the one angered and/or someone else in the path of that reaction.
Anger also knows no gender
It makes no difference as to gender, males and females both have anger problems. Anger is a real feeling that tells you or me that we have been hurt. If we don’t know how to recognize when we are hurt, our energy grows unnoticed, and our emotions get ahead of our brain. If you or I get to a point where we act instead of think, we have mismanaged our anger.
When we have an anger problem, getting stuck in our anger can lead us to blaming and punishing others for our pain. Once we have reacted to anger, instead of thinking first, we have allowed our feelings to control us rather than us controlling the situation. This could lead to behaviors you or I never would have done if we were making rational choices.
You and I have no right to put our attitude on anyone. We probably know that, and you and I probably feel pretty bad about what we may have said or done in situations of uncontrolled anger.
The problem is not necessarily that we were wrong;
The problem is not even that we were angry;
The problem is that we allowed our anger to let us get out of control.


A short-tempered man is a fool. It's in the Bible, Ecclesiastes 7:9, "Be not quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools" (RSV). Proverbs 19:11,"Good sense makes a man slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense" (RSV). Proverbs 16:32, "He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city" (RSV).

Get over anger quickly. It's in the Bible, Ephesians 4:26-27,"Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, (27) and give no opportunity to the devil" (RSV).

Don't fight back when wronged. It's in the Bible, I Peter 3:9,"Do not return evil for evil or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called, that you may obtain a blessing" (RSV).

Anger produces strife. It's in the Bible, Proverbs 30:33, "For as churning the milk produces butter, and as twisting the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife" (NIV).

So much more could be said about this particular subject but I will end it here and take up a new one for next time. Thank you all for your continued service to our Great God. God bless, Mark

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