DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONALS: OCTOBER 19 WHY WE MUST DEAL WITH ANGER (3) SCRIPTURE: PROVERBS 14: 30
Addressing issues of anger and steps to deal with it is really too vast to be exhausted. The devotional is touching the salient points which can guide Christians. As the Bible contains verses of the scripture dealing with anger issues so are books written by classical scholars on anger, anger managements, anger therapy and related fields armed with couching human beings on how to minimize exhibitions of uncontrollable anger. Today’s devotional picked extracts from a published article, considered fitting for Christians, in Tacoma Christian Counseling Ministry blogs.
The article was titled “Anger Management: How to deal with Anger in God’s Way” by one Dr. Kevin Boll. We all know that anger, just like emotion, is a feeling that can be used for good or evil. This devotional is developing on how to deal with evil intending anger in God’s way.
Observations show that some people hardly know they have anger issues for a long time. On this note, it is considered fitting to see what Dr. Kevin Boll says here.
(1). If you get physically or emotionally aggressive, you may have anger issue.
(2). There is a tendency that you have anger issue by being passively aggressive. Meaning you become bitter towards someone, you might resist requests by the other person and shut him/her out without showing anger openly. These actions show you have anger issue.
(3). One other thing to watch out for is physically harming others when in rage. This is anger issue.
(4). When you keep blaming other people for your anger, telling them if they could stop behaving a certain behaviour, you will not have been angry; it shows you need to do something to deal with your anger issues.
Dr. Kevin Boll presented many emotional and physical problems excessive anger had caused to human health that need to be brushed here.
(1). Anger causes a release of stress-hormones that weakens the immune system and destroys neurons in the brain.
(2). Anger causes a burst of energy that tightens blood vessels and causes blood pressure to soar.
(3). Anger is also tied to increasing risk of heart diseases and heart attacks. These and other problems anger caused human beings are strong enough reasons for human beings to deal healthily with anger.
Anger fights off sound heart which is the life of the flesh. It could cause envy that the Bible says is the rottenness of the bones (Prov. 14: 30). The last series of this devotional will point out more Biblical and godly ways to deal with anger problems. Please follow us into tomorrow devotional.
PRAYER:
FATHER LORD, I sincerely thank you for this discussion on anger. I have seen how being controlled by anger causes physical and spiritual problems to mankind. Kindly grant me and your Christian children grace to have control over anger in the name of Jesus Christ.
bishopubaudenyi@hopealivechurch
