Let Go Of The Anger (Romans 12:18-21)

The Reason For My Faith ^ | 12/8/20 | Chuck Ness

[OneVike]

by Chuck Ness

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. Paul tells us to;

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking
be put away from you, with all malice. Ephesians 4:31

Anger and rage do more harm to those those who practice it, than it does to the person the anger is targeted at. How many times have we witnessed someone so full of anger and rage that they end up doing something that only hurts themselves. How many times has that happened to you?

The Lord our God gave us a free will. Which is the ability to choose which road to take in our daily journey. We can choose to walk in peace with The Lord, or we can choose to walk in anger with the enemy. One is grace the other is not, one is obedience the other is sin.

For many years I walked with anger in my heart for those who did me wrong or hurt my loved ones. I chose to sin and be angry, rather than be obedient and let go of that anger. It took many years to learn this lesson. And all it took, was for me to submit to the will God in my life. To see things through His eyes instead of my own. To realize how many times He offered me grace instead of reacting in anger.

Through the sacrifice of His Son, I have salvation, but with that salvation comes the duty to love, not hate. He loves me, and his grace is sufficient for me, who am I to do any less for others?

I am not perfect by any means, and still fail to control my anger at things and people. However, I try my best to love and bless those who do me wrong. When I'm successful at holding back my anger, I know that I will heaping coals of fire upon their heads instead burning myself with my anger.

If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat;
And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
For so you will heap coals of fire on his head,
And the LORD will reward you. Proverbs 25:21-22

Forgiving those who do me wrong is like pulling a power play on my heart. I give it to GOD, and He does what He always does. He reveals things I have yet to deal with in my own life that could anger others. Sometimes they are things I have hidden for years, even from myself.

If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.

“If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.”

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:18-21

What many fail to realise is that the reason Moses did not enter the promised land was because of his anger at the people. After wondering with the misfits he freed from Egypt, he had to deal with their constant complaints and ungreatfulness for setting them free from bondage. You will recall, that 40 years earlier God told Moses to strike the rock to give them water.

Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink."..... Exodus 17:6

Well fast forward 40 years, and again they are complaining about water. This time God told Moses to just speak to the rock. Instead, in his anger Moses chastised the people and then angrily struck the rock a few times. God got upset with Moses and told him, because of what he did he would die before they entered the promise land.

And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?” Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank. Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” Numbers 20:10-12

Now it's not that Moses died and went to Hell. However, his anger caused him to miss out on the blessing God had in store for him here in this World. If anyone deserved to enter into the promised land God was going to give the Israelites, it was Moses. If for no other reason than he had to put up with the ungrateful sorry bunch of losers he had been babysitting for the last 40 years.

What we need to understand is that our anger at those who hate and ridicule and persecute us, could keep us from receiving the blessing God wants us to enjoy here in this World. We are supposed to be an example of a loving and forgiving God. Paul pretty much tells us that if we want to get upset with anyone, we should get upset with our fellow Christians. We should avoid bad Christians, not those who are in the World,

I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person. 1 Corinthians 5:9-11

He tells us this, because the World is lost and those who are lost do as the lost do. You cannot avoid the lost, because how can you evangelize to them if you are not in contact with them. It does not mean you should hang out in bars or join them in their sin, but you need to be around a lost person to have a chance to save them. We cannot expect the lost to stumble into a Church and ask to be saved. In a blue Moon this could happen, but we need to be amongst the lost to reach them.

Be mad at the World, not the sinners in the world. Be angry, but do not sin. Hate evil, but not those practicing it. Do as Jesus did. Jesus scolded the religious leaders of the time, and avoided hanging out with them. Yet, did not scold the sinners that he hung out with. Remember the time he spent the day with Zacchaeus? Luke 19:1-10

So, we as a child of Christ, are to be His example to the those lost in the World. We must extend our hand of friendship in the chance we may save them from their own self destruction. We do this in many ways, one of them is by controlling our anger. So let go of the anger Christian, and enjoy the blessings God has in store for you. Blessings all Christian's jeopardize by not being an example of Him in this fallen World

[OneVike]

We all get angry, especially in the times we live in. Yet, we need to understand that
our best way to handle situations that anger us is to give out to Christ. Then our
personal blessings will not be effected by our lack of self control as it did with Moses.

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[Irenic]

I need to let go but I sure don’t want to.

There are so many things and people to be angry with.

[webheart]

To each thing there is a season. This is the season for anger. We know who and what we are angry at so don’t let it spill over into the season for giving. But stay angry.

[cgbg]

Understood—For decades I was furious at the local lefty newspaper—they were the oldest continuously published newspaper in the country and had totally betrayed their readers with their shoddy propaganda masquerading as “journalism”.

But then—a true miracle happened:

https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Hartford-Courant-to-close-newsroom-15777406.php

While “technically” they still exist, their building is gone from the state and the printing press is gone from the state.

They are now as relevant to the state as the local horse-shoe manufacturer...

Justice!

[OneVike]

And that is what happens when we leave it to God to deal with.

God tells us to beware of our wrath, because He, GOD, may remove the punishment from one who deserves it because of our own sinful anger to said person.

[Irenic]

The post was a reminder that I have work to do but I don’t know how well I will do.

I really am highly agitated nowadays.

Glad your paper is gone and thanks. :)

[metmom]

We ball struggle with it and it’s hard to learn how to be angry and not sin in it.

[metmom]

We all struggle...

*sigh*...

[metmom]

the thing that’s difficult is that when we feel anger, we immediately think it’s sin and therefore try to squash it.

But that doesn’t work because it only pops up somewhere else later.

Jesus was angry and we know He didn’t sin. God is angry at sin too.

We should all be praying,then I suppose, on how to be angry and not sin in it. I have not yet found any really good teaching on how to do that.

[OneVike]

We should all be praying,then I suppose, on how to be angry and not sin in it. I have not yet found any really good teaching on how to do that.

When you come up with a good formula, let me know.

I feel like David did in some of his Psalms. I want to break their teeth out of their heads and send them on a one way ride to....... well ya get this idea.

[chrisser]

Anger is a powerful motivator, especially when righteous.

Jesus himself demonstrated so with the money changers in the temple.

If anger is a sin, then getting angry over evil and injustice, if it motivates one to fight it, is a necessary sin. Allowing evil and injustice to flourish when we could address it by getting angry seems to me to be a far greater sin.

[OneVike]

Doing right does not have to be done in an angry human way. Jesus has a righteous anger, try accomplishing that without making things worse for us mere mortals is an almost impossible task. Just look at war.

We can accomplish our task at defeating the evil injustices of the World much better in prayer and obedience to God than we ever will through our meager attempts at righteous Judgement.

Our biggest problem in attempting to convince God we truly desire to win in the arena of human situations is, while we know that god gave us our inalienable tights, we do so while spending 99.9% of our human efforts influenced by anger at the situation and using less than .01% our most effective weapon, prayer.

History proves that when we reverse our strategy, that our efforts are more effective 99.99..% of the time. The .01% when we fail under that formula is when God has a different plan.

God does want righteousness and good to prevail, but that darn thing called God’s providence often times gets in the way.

Sooner or later, throughout history, God’s decision was made long before we woke up and realized the house is burning and we are trapped upstairs in the bed with fire all around us. We woke up too late, God had judged us already and lall we have left is to pray fir a quick death.

Do you think there were not good Godly people living in the places throughout history where destruction has leveled a society because they ignored God’s warnings for too long, and the writing was visibly on the wall fir all to see?

In our minds we all realize that if we lose this battle of the election it’s over fir life as we knew it in the US. God may have a plan we know not about and in 2 years 4 years things could change.

So fir us to get so upset that we inject anger without logic is not constructive.

Mind you, I speak of Christians, not For those living in the a world. Yet those in the World out number is, and too often Christians have ill advisedly joined the World in their decision to use anger instead of Godly spiritual logic.

Metmom, I tagged you because I was rather disappointed with my comment to you. I was in a hurry and sent it before realizing how off it truly was.

I do know how to defeat my human desire to get angry, and that was the whole point of my post.

Give it to God, and step away from the situation. He will replace the desire fir anger with a desire fir a righteous response. Works every time it’s tried, because he promises us peace and tranquility in our heart and soul, even in the valley of the shadow of death.

[metmom]

I took no offense with your reply and did not see anything wrong with it.

Something new that occurred to me to try is when I think of something that someone did to me in the past, my (theoretically) first thought will be to say out loud, *Lord, I forgive them.*

Now mind you, sometimes i find myself stewing over something, but when I catch myself, then I do the forgiveness thing.

Now, anger at actual injustice is another matter. Gotta figure out how to handle that because Jesus was angry when He cleared the Temple, and yet did not sin. So clearly, we can be angry and act in or from that anger and still not sin.

Need more prayer on how to do THAT.