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Anger Management: A Biblical Perspective from Proverbs
Explore Proverbs 16:32 and its teachings on controlling anger. U… (visit YouTube for more)
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Are you ready for the scripture’s perspective on anger management? Well, let’s meditate on Proverbs chapter 16, verse 32. Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
Do you admire people who are able to control their temper? Not people who are completely passionless , but those who, when provoked don’t react, those who, when they’re cut up in traffic, just shrug and say, oh, well, and carry on driving.
The writer of this Proverb respects that, desires that, recommends that, that we would be slow to anger, that we would rule our spirit, that we would be self controlled and disciplined and moderate in the way that we react to people.
How do we achieve that? One of the ways is to meditate on scripture. The more we gain a godly perspective, the less these trivial insults will bother us. The more we see things the way God sees them, the more our attention will be focused rightly on things that matter to him, rather than things that bother us.
And the recommendation here is that we are slow to anger so that we take stock. We don’t just explode for whatever reason, even for good reasons.
You know, when Jesus turned over the tables in the temple, when he threw out the money changes, he was demonstrating righteous anger. But you can bet he knew long before he went in there what he was going to do. It wasn’t a reaction of the spur of the moment. This was God doing the thing that God does.
So anger is not completely forbidden. It’s just framed within the context of self-control, personal management, and ultimately submission to God and to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. If we can achieve all that says this proverb, we are greater than those who rule a city. We are greater than kings.
