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I once heard a story that shook me to my bones. A man found his son, who was about four or five years old, using a sharp object to scratch words onto the surface of his brand-new car. The man got angry and yelled at his son, “Get away from my car!” In his anger, he grabbed the first thing he could lay his hands on, which was a hammer, and began to smash the boy's right hand. By the time he realised what he was doing, his son’s fingers were already mangled. He rushed the boy to the hospital, but what was left of the fingers had to be amputated. The next day, the boy said to his father, “Daddy, when will my fingers grow?” The man felt sad and went outside to where his car was parked. For the first time, he looked closely at what his son had scratched on his car, and he couldn’t believe his eyes. The boy had written, “I love you, daddy.” Guilt and shame overwhelmed the man, and he decided to commit suicide.
Have you noticed that when people become angry, they suddenly seem to be extremely strong? An angry fellow feels unnaturally confident to do things that he or she could not do before. For instance, you might discover that whenever you are angry, something within will tell you that you can beat three people at the same time. That is the devil deceiving you; he wants to push you to act under the influence of anger. His sole aim is always to lead people to their destruction (), and one of the tools he uses is anger.
When I was much younger, I was a boxer, and I really admired Mohammed Ali because he had an interesting way of defeating his opponents. He would taunt them before and during the fight until they became very angry. He knew that angry people make mistakes, and once he was able to get his opponents angry, they would become too furious to fight in a coordinated manner, and he would defeat them. I also used this strategy as a boxer, and it worked for me.
Beloved, you must banish anger from your life because those who allow anger to rule their lives will live defeated lives. Today’s memory verse says that you should not be in a hurry in your spirit to be angry and that anger rests in the bosom of fools. Refuse to be a fool.