Audit Your Anger

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you.

Ephesians 4:31

Anger turns into resentment, resentment turns into bitterness, bitterness turns into unforgiveness, and unforgiveness turns into a defiled conscience. Pretty soon, we have become captives of our own anger.

Anger is nothing more than a sophisticated version of a temper tantrum. Just because we can define it with eloquent speech doesn’t mean it is any more justified. We are still mad that we can’t get what we want. And our anger overflows out of us and defiles everyone around us.

Instead of nursing, rehearsing, conversing about, and dispersing our anger, we need to reverse our anger before it hurts us and others.

How do you reverse anger? Paul says you do it with forgiveness and loving-kindness and tenderness. You go to the person toward whom you have directed your anger, and you seek forgiveness.