2 Positive Steps to Overpower Anger
Have you been battling anger, but it keeps rearing its ugly head? Have you noticed that the harder you try to not be angry, the more your family retreats?
Anger management doesn’t work. Stop fighting anger. The harder you focus on NOT being something, the more you become like it—including being angry.
Change your focus. Don’t struggle to manage your anger.
- Instead, learn to love, really love, sacrificial love. Love others like Jesus loves you. If you don’t know how, meditate on 1 Corinthians 13.
If you’re like Robert, my husband, and you need something different, something where you can see it and study cause and effect, watch the video on this site where he gives his testimony. He was desperate for help, and the Lord gave him victory over his bondage to anger. In 1 John, he saw something that opened his eyes to see how love affects other people. He learned a secret that helped him learn to love.
- Another possible focus is to learn to respect everybody you come in contact with, from your spouse and children to the driver that just cut in front of you or is blocking your path. It is impossible to put somebody down in anger while showing respect for them.
Both love and respect consider the other person before self. That is the real secret of overcoming anger, to think more highly of the other person than yourself (Rom. 12:3ff).
Don’t fight anger. Seek to grow in the character of God instead.
While you’re at it, don’t forget to ask for the Lord’s help. It doesn’t matter how hard we try. We can’t gain godly character on our own. We are totally dependent on Him to do it in us. However, if we ask, and keep on asking, we will receive.
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