Most of us have joked about someone that we know who needs "anger management" classes. I have said it myself about someone who I justified as having a "short fuse". The truth, girls, is that there is no such thing as anger management in God's eyes.
Our society has accepted anger as a means of self-expression. The thought in these anger management classes is that we need to channel the negative energy of our anger into something positive. When one attends these classes, the direction is to punch a pillow or go into a room by yourself and scream until you feel okay. Girls, that is nothing more than promoting a fit---except we aren't talking to two-year-olds. One woman said it like this, "We don't need to manage our anger; we need to get rid of it." I couldn't agree more, but until this morning, it didn't dawn on me how destructive this 'anger management' philosophy is. To manage something means that you are allowing it to exist. We've heard of money management, time management, family management, and so on. But, anger management? The title alone acknowledges that we are going to allow ourselves to be angry but just in a managed way.
Ephesians 4:31 gives a totally different teaching:
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Perhaps the Bible tells us to put it away from us because there is no managing of it. If we allow only a little anger to exist, then we are hurting ourselves. Anger is destructive, not only to you but to others.
Scripture Reading for the Day:
Proverbs 19
III John 1
Whoaaa never thought of it this way lol.
ReplyDeleteWow, I never really knew the problem with anger management until this post!
ReplyDeleteSuch a good point. It's easy to say "that's just the way I am"...but God does not cause us to sin - we choose to sin!
ReplyDeletewow never looked at it that way
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