Anger issues

Today God brought my attention to the subject of anger, and how one person anger can effect another person personality. He also had me revisit my shady ways. In Proverb 22:24-25, it talks bout how one should not befriend an angry person. That their anger will rub off on you as well. While reading this I think about my temper problem and past arguments with some people. Some people I have argued with were naturally angry people, but the people who were not and I notice a change in them after interacting with me, made me just sit and think. I was the reason they started acting out of character. My anger and temper is something that I have tried to control for awhile but just knowing how it effects other individuals makes me strive to want to fix it.

I also talked about my shady ways being revisited. in James 4:3 it talks about when a person ask for something but does not have the proper intentions for the use. I think back to every time I asked for something and it did not go my way. I have to look at the actually thing I was asking for and how in my mind I thought it would benefit me. Was the results of the action going be one of personal pleasure or personal growth. Sometimes a person might get that result of personal pleasure, but the one that will give a person personal growth is the one God will most likely answer.


This brings me to a statement I have mention on facebook. The personal pleasure most likely was not granted by God, most likely it was the Devil that gave you a loan. They are times when a person feels they have been blessed with somethings, when in reality it is just a loan from the Devil. The Devil at times will tease a person to test their faith, and sometimes when things do not go their way, they become angry with God. That is something the Devil wants, a person to feel that God granted them that blessing, when in reality it was the Devil. When it is taken away, a weak spirited person most the time might curse the Lord in anger, and wonder why it was taken away.