The Bible says, \u2018He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.\u2019<\/i> As a Christian you have the Holy Spirit living within you, and one of the fruits of the Spirit is \u2018self-control\u2019<\/i> (see Galatians 5:23). <\/p>\n
That means as a Christian you can<\/i> control your temper, and as a Christian you must<\/i> control it. You say, \u2018I get mad easily because I was born with that nature!\u2019 You\u2019re not supposed to live according to your old nature, but your new one! Anger is like a river. Controlled, it can generate enough electricity to power an entire city. Uncontrolled, it can overflow its banks and become a raging flood that destroys everything in its path. And as surely as a river can be controlled, so can your temper. <\/p>\n
Have you ever been in a big argument at home with your spouse or one of your kids? Suddenly the telephone rings; instantly you pick it up and answer in a soft, controlled tone, \u2018Hello-o-o-o. May I help you?\u2019 What just happened? You proved that your anger can be controlled and tamed. The Bible says, \u2018People with understanding control their anger; a hot temper shows great foolishness.\u2019<\/i> (Proverbs 14:29 NLT) Not everything is worth getting angry about. The more calmly you see a situation, the more clearly you\u2019ll see how to handle it. <\/p>\n
So if you have a quick temper, here\u2019s some good advice. When you\u2019re angry, count to ten before you speak. And when you\u2019re really<\/i> angry, count to one hundred\u2014then don\u2019t say anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Bible says, \u2018He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.\u2019 As a Christian you have the Holy Spirit living within you, and one of the fruits of the Spirit is \u2018self-control\u2019 (see Galatians 5:23). That means as a Christian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}