Anger -
Remember Bob Geldof?
Before becoming involved with Live Aid and Africa, Bob was lead singer in a band called the Boomtown Rats. Their biggest hit was called “I don’t like Mondays”. It was based on a 1979 school shooting in San Diego, when a 17-year old girl decided to use her father’s Christmas present of a gun, to kill two members of staff and wound 8 children. When she was asked why she’d done it, she replied, “I don’t like Mondays!”
This senseless response sums up the irrational nature of the anger and violence that is a mark of our age. 2007 has been the year of teenage stabbings in London.
Before becoming involved with Live Aid and Africa, Bob was lead singer in a band called the Boomtown Rats. Their biggest hit was called “I don’t like Mondays”. It was based on a 1979 school shooting in San Diego, when a 17-
This senseless response sums up the irrational nature of the anger and violence that is a mark of our age. 2007 has been the year of teenage stabbings in London.
Do you have a problem with anger?
Do you go from freezing to boiling point within seconds?
Do you lose your cool at the drop of a hat?
Do you react aggressively if someone dares to criticise you, or gets in your way, or stops you getting what you want?
Do you go from freezing to boiling point within seconds?
Do you lose your cool at the drop of a hat?
Do you react aggressively if someone dares to criticise you, or gets in your way, or stops you getting what you want?
If so, what do you need to know about anger, and how can you learn to control it?
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You need first to understand the following characteristics of anger.
Anger ….
Anger ….
· Is a waste of time. It never produces the results intended. God says His righteousness “doesn’t grow from human anger” [James 1.20]
· Is ugly. Have you ever taken a look at yourself in the mirror when you get angry? Not a pretty sight!
· Is inspired by the devil himself. God says, this kind of behaviour is “animal cunning, devilish conniving”[James 3.15]
· Is the fast lane to violence. The first murder in history was a story of uncontrolled anger in the home
· And to hell! Jesus said that everyone who is angry with someone else is in danger of God’s judgement
· Is therefore the behaviour of fools. The wisest man who ever lived tells us that anger “boomerangs”,and that “you can spot a fool by the lumps on his head”[Ecclesiastes 7.9]
· Takes a real man to control. The same wise man reckoned that “moderation is better than muscle, self-control better than political power” [Proverbs 16.32]
