A Radical Suggestion
Do you try to control your anger, only to have it erupt at other drivers—or against those you love the most?
Do efforts to control your tongue seem futile?
I have a radical suggestion. If you’re really trying hard to not be angry and it isn’t working, quit trying.
Why? Most attempts to change don’t work because of dependence on personal strength and goodness—on personal righteousness. Man’s righteousness is not good enough or powerful enough to bring lasting change to ones heart.
Rather than focusing on not being angry, build your relationship with the Source of goodness and righteousness. Jesus is the source of transforming power. Next to His, your righteousness is as filthy rags. Surrender your problem and cry out to Him for help. Yield to Him for change.
As He increases in your life and His nature becomes more a part of you, your anger problems will fade. Love will replace anger, because God is love.
Notes: This does not offer permission to abandon self control. Self control is a gift of the Spirit. We all need to exercise self control, acting toward others as we want them to act toward us.
The book Uprooting Anger: Destroying the Monster Within reveals many issues in our hearts which block us from having a close relationship with the Lord and thus hinder our transformation.
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