We all get angry, right? At any given moment, on any given day we are capable of feeling angry. It’s true that being angry is not a sin. It’s most emphatically what we are capable of and willing to do with that anger when it wells up inside of us?
          Just in case you’re in that group of people who’d be hard pressed to admit you ever get angry, here are a few synonyms for anger: annoyance, exasperation, irritation, bitter, bristle, cold, contrary, fired up, fit to be tied, hot, icy, indignant, etc.  I could go on, but I’m sure you get the point. Anger can appear and be described in a variety of ways.         

          Regardless of how we could or would describe it from without or within, God’s Word has a remedy that we could all, without exception apply to our hearts and lives.
          “A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” Proverbs 15:1
          “Patience can persuade a prince, and soft speech can crush opposition.” Proverbs 25:15
          “Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to God’s wrath; for it is written, “‘Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,'” says the Lord.” Romans 12:19
          “Be angry and do not sin: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, no give place to the devil.” Ephesians 4:26-27
          “Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.” Ephesians 4:31
          “So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.” James 1:19-20
          Dear sisters, may it be said of us that we never let our anger lead us to sin against others in word, thought or deed…and if we do fall short in this area, let us be quick to confess and repent and seek God for the change that needs to take place within  our own hearts and lives.
         Stephanie

Stephanie Paul serves as part of the Addiction Recovery Team at America’s Keswick as Director of Women’s Addiction Ministry. She has been married for almost 30 years to Sesky Paul who is a graduate
of the Colony of Mercy. Stephanie serves alongside him as Care Group leaders in their church. They have two grown children.
Her single focus in ministry at Keswick is to image Christ in grace and truth to wounded and hurting women, encouraging them to make Jesus the truest Lover of their soul and the One in whom all hope lies.