Posted on 09/15/2020 3:56:35 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife” (Proverbs 15:18).
“A wrathful man stirreth up strife,” this is the second time we have come across contention and strife: “Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom” (Proverbs 13:10).
Usually a man full of wrath is a proud man. His pride has been endangered or hurt, his ego has been smashed and so he is out to get even. So, he stirs up wrath, and he stirs up trouble. When a man has trouble with people and there’s a contention. It comes from two things—pride and wrath in the heart. “A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger” (Proverbs 15:1). The best way to handle it is not to have any wrath or contention in your heart. There can’t be a fight if you are not fighting.
“. . . but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife,” see, it doesn’t say not to get angry, just to be slow to anger. To appease something is to quiet it.
“If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord” (Romans 12:18-19).
This is a great passage that every Christian ought to memorize, “as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.” There are times when you will get angry, but don’t let the sun go down on your wrath. Jesus spoke of anger without a cause in Matthew 5:22, but there sometimes is a cause.
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