Analyzing Anger
Robert Dawson
Ephesians 4: 26-27, 31
An ER nurse from Atlanta tells this amazingly bizarre and I hope fictitious or at least embellished story. One day a couple arrived in the ER, both husband and wife were suffering from gunshot wounds. The husband overslept for his first day on a new job and blamed his wife because she did not set the alarm. He expressed his displeasure by shooting her in the arm. Not to be outdone, she retreated to another room, got a different gun and shot him in the arm.
As the nurse was preparing the paperwork in the preop-unit, he heard something you would only expect to hear in a country song. As the couple lay handcuffed in separate beds with a deputy sheriff between them, the husband said, ''I love you baby. I'm sure sorry I shot ya.'' To which the wife responded, ''I'm sorry I shot you. I love you too.''
Can you imagine?! Wow! Talk about an explosive temper and anger issues! While not to that extreme, there are many of us struggle with anger and because of our failure to understand, control and properly direct our anger we figurately shoot the people we love, destroying relationships and damaging ourselves.
Before we move on from Ephesians 4 completely, where Paul is encouraging us to walk worthy of our calling and put off those things that belong to who we were before Christ and put on those things that reflect who we are in Christ, I want to take a couple of weeks and discuss two problems that Paul addresses in this chapter. They are problems many of us struggle with, tend to ignore or explain away. Anger and forgiveness (they are closely related and part of a cluster of emotions all connected to the question of control/authority).
Ephesians 4.26-27, 31-32 - Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and do not give the devil an opportunity...31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one a ...
Robert Dawson
Ephesians 4: 26-27, 31
An ER nurse from Atlanta tells this amazingly bizarre and I hope fictitious or at least embellished story. One day a couple arrived in the ER, both husband and wife were suffering from gunshot wounds. The husband overslept for his first day on a new job and blamed his wife because she did not set the alarm. He expressed his displeasure by shooting her in the arm. Not to be outdone, she retreated to another room, got a different gun and shot him in the arm.
As the nurse was preparing the paperwork in the preop-unit, he heard something you would only expect to hear in a country song. As the couple lay handcuffed in separate beds with a deputy sheriff between them, the husband said, ''I love you baby. I'm sure sorry I shot ya.'' To which the wife responded, ''I'm sorry I shot you. I love you too.''
Can you imagine?! Wow! Talk about an explosive temper and anger issues! While not to that extreme, there are many of us struggle with anger and because of our failure to understand, control and properly direct our anger we figurately shoot the people we love, destroying relationships and damaging ourselves.
Before we move on from Ephesians 4 completely, where Paul is encouraging us to walk worthy of our calling and put off those things that belong to who we were before Christ and put on those things that reflect who we are in Christ, I want to take a couple of weeks and discuss two problems that Paul addresses in this chapter. They are problems many of us struggle with, tend to ignore or explain away. Anger and forgiveness (they are closely related and part of a cluster of emotions all connected to the question of control/authority).
Ephesians 4.26-27, 31-32 - Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and do not give the devil an opportunity...31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one a ...
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