Sudden Anger...

Have you ever been driving down the road and someone pulls in front of you and cuts you off? Our reactions are often a great example of sudden anger! Anything that will get you splitting mad in a split second... that's sudden anger.

Proverbs 12:16 tells us that a fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

There's this unofficial law in life - Murphy's law. It suggests that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, at the worst time! When we are late for a deadline and our printer fails, the stationary shop that is always open is closed, the clothes that we need have not been ironed, our relationships are going well and then we are betrayed, we work hard for our raise and it goes to someone else, we dedicate time and effort into planning and organising an event and half the guests don’t pitch, walking home from the shops a packet of food drops and spills in the middle of the road... you get what I'm saying?

Sudden anger can really ruin our day, it can upset us and cause us to say and act in a way that is discouraging to those around us! It can also ruin our worship and hinder us from entering into GOD's presence for the very peace that we are searching for in worship! It's amazing that such a small thing can have such a large impact, this, is when we need to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Patch Adams says laughter is the best medicine and when it comes to sudden anger - remember to laugh at yourself!

Have a blessed day!