FBC Gridley

Doctors tell us that the emotion of anger has a more immediate negative effect on the chemical balance of the body than any other emotion, including fear. And while the emotion passes swiftly, the damage does not.

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In Ecclesiastes 7, Solomon wrote, The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride. Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.   Ecclesiastes 7:8-9

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Maybe you have a terrible temper and you never physically abuse anybody, and you think you have it under control.

 

I think you need to listen to this discussion today because you may have no idea the kind of emotional stress you create for other people.  Or the kind of damage you do personally by your revengeful, grudging spirit or by your negative, sour expression.

 

Moses was a great man of God who had difficulty controlling his temper, and we're going to look at an event early in his career when he lost his temper, killed an Egyptian, and had to flee for his life.

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But I want you to keep in mind that this is not the only occasion when Moses has difficulty with his temper; it emerges again and again and eventually costs him the privilege of entering into the promised land.

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One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.  Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Exodus 2:11-12