Anger can do a lot of damage. When we allow it to control our thoughts and actions, we not only hurt other people but we also hurt ourselves.
In fact, recent medical research has found new evidence linking heart disease and anger. According to an Associated Press release, Dr. Redford B. Williams Jr. and some of his colleagues did a personality study of 118 students in law school. They were graded on their hostility. Twenty-five years later, 20 percent of those who had scored highest as being angry persons had died, compared with only 5 percent of those who had registered lowest.
Dr. Williams said that people who are inclined toward anger may “get furious, for instance, in slow-moving bank lines. They complain to themselves about why other customers haven’t filled out their deposit slips ahead of time and may show their unhappiness by making sour faces or even surly comments to those ahead of them.”
No question about it, anger is hurtful to the heart – both physically and spiritually.
The New Testament admonishes, “Let all bitterness, wrath, anger … be put away from you” (Ephesians 4:31), and “let the peace of God rule in your hearts” (Colossians 3:15). – Paul R. Van Gorder
Biblical Solution to Inappropriate Anger
What three words in Psalm 37 are the key to handling anger so that it won’t hurt us?
_________________(v. 3), ___________________ (v. 4), _____________________(v. 5)
For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
- November 3, 1989, Our Daily Bread
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