“Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil” ( Psalm 37:8)

It’s a common everyday experience. Any who tries to boil water in a pan knows that at a certain point the pressure would just tear up the lid to burst open. Such a case is not only limited to boiling water in a pan- also human beings when they suck in a lot and don’t let it out can reach a point of explosion and force the lid to burst open. This could be a situation of anger all bottled up that burst through the seams.

Hence, counselors would ordinarily urge us if we are angry over a certain matter to go and talk it over. It’s a good therapy that the Bible also offers: “And “don’t sin by letting anger control you.” Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry” (Ephesians 4:26). Of course who has not had that bad night of restlessness simply because there was a matter eating one up yet it could all be laid to rest by talking over with whoever is upsetting one!

Cain killed his brother Abel because he let anger consume him ( Gen 4:8). Anger is one of those tools the enemy can use to ultimately cause us ruin as happened to Cain, and which we must be watchful.

Today, if there is a matter oppressing you, do not suck it in to a boiling point. First, God has given us a way out to come to him for “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us” ( 1 John 5:14). God also desires reconciliation with his children, for he says, “I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you”         ( John 17:21).

Prayer today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, where there is any situation in my life troubling me to a point of anger I surrender it to you for the freedom and peace that flows from you instead of oppressing anger, this I pray in Jesus’s name.