The other day as I was driving to church, I kept encountering idiots in cars. Fast idiots, slow idiots, idiots that clearly didn't know what they were doing... And you know what? All those "idiots" irritated me. By their disrespect for the traffic laws (and slowing me down), they made me angry. Then, in a moment of sudden clarity, I thought to myself, "I bet we're going to be talking about anger in our bible study today." In God's sovereignty, that is exactly what we talked about. Later, after I came home, I looked up my daily bible verse from Proverbs. As you might guess, it was this:
"A gentle answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger." Pro. 15:1, NIV
That's when I stopped and thought about it. The Bible constantly commands us to control our anger. Obviously, if we could not control our anger, and never restrain it, then there would be no point in ordering us to control our anger. However, sometimes we just have so much trouble restraining ourselves (at least, I know I do). That's why this verse is so important to us as Christians: it shows us a way to defuse anger in others and even ourselves.
So next time you play Angry Birds, keep this in mind: maybe those birds just need a gentle answer from those pigs.
"A gentle answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger." Pro. 15:1, NIV
That's when I stopped and thought about it. The Bible constantly commands us to control our anger. Obviously, if we could not control our anger, and never restrain it, then there would be no point in ordering us to control our anger. However, sometimes we just have so much trouble restraining ourselves (at least, I know I do). That's why this verse is so important to us as Christians: it shows us a way to defuse anger in others and even ourselves.
So next time you play Angry Birds, keep this in mind: maybe those birds just need a gentle answer from those pigs.
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