I heard a man talking about his recent experience at the airport where the man in front of him was in an argument with the help desk. The customer was angry that he had to pay for his luggage: "I shouldn't have to pay. I'm a military reservist!"
So what's really going on here? If this man were to seek counseling, he might say something like, "my issue is anger. I'm angry all the time. People are idiots. This is pretty simple. Why can't these morons just realize military shouldn't pay for luggage?" And on and on and on he would go...
The truth is, I do this all the time. If we're being honest, we all do this. Believers and non believers alike. This is the condition of the human heart; namely, broken and selfish people who harbor evil and offensive thoughts in Gods sight. We become angry when we believe lies.
What if our anger is a byproduct of fighting symptoms and overlooking they disease? What if we are fighting the wrong "enemy" and seeing people as our struggle instead of the disposition of our heart?
If Ephesians 6:12 is true, then, people are not our struggle; the mindset of our heart towards people is the struggle:
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual for ces of evil in the heavenly places.”
Anger management is a misnomer and a lame exchange for confession and repentance of what's really going on in the heart. The heart of the issue is always an issue of the heart.
What if we approached our "anger issues" like this...
So what's really going on here? If this man were to seek counseling, he might say something like, "my issue is anger. I'm angry all the time. People are idiots. This is pretty simple. Why can't these morons just realize military shouldn't pay for luggage?" And on and on and on he would go...
The truth is, I do this all the time. If we're being honest, we all do this. Believers and non believers alike. This is the condition of the human heart; namely, broken and selfish people who harbor evil and offensive thoughts in Gods sight. We become angry when we believe lies.
What if our anger is a byproduct of fighting symptoms and overlooking they disease? What if we are fighting the wrong "enemy" and seeing people as our struggle instead of the disposition of our heart?
If Ephesians 6:12 is true, then, people are not our struggle; the mindset of our heart towards people is the struggle:
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual for ces of evil in the heavenly places.”
Anger management is a misnomer and a lame exchange for confession and repentance of what's really going on in the heart. The heart of the issue is always an issue of the heart.
What if we approached our "anger issues" like this...
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