Four Hours on the Floor
Theme of the Week: Venting Prevention
Monday, May 4, 2009
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Key Bible Verse: He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city (Proverbs 16:32 NKJV). Bonus Reading: Ephesians 4:26-27
I burst into our empty house, locked myself in the bathroom, and sank to the floor, miserable and frightened. I could no longer deny that I had a severe anger problem, and that I'd never achieve my dream of being a doctor with an uncontrollable temper. I admitted to myself there was no way I could control it by myself. "Lord, please, you've got to help me," I prayed. "Take this temper away! You promised that if I ask anything in faith, you'll do it. I believe you can change me."
I slipped out and got a Bible. Back on the bathroom floor, I opened to the book of Proverbs. The words of [today's Key Bible Verse] convicted me, but also gave me hope. I felt God telling me that although he knew everything about me, he still loved me … That because he made me, he was the only one who could change me … And that he would. Gradually I stopped crying, my hands quit shaking, and I was filled with the assurance that God had answered my prayer.
Uncontrolled anger has never again been a threat to me or those around me. God has provided and will provide whatever strength I need to control my temper.
—Ben Carson in Take the Risk!
My Response: Have I been released from the power of others to get me mad?
Thought to Apply: It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.—e.e. Cummings (poet)
Adapted from Take the Risk! (Zondervan, 2007) by permission.
Copyright © 2009 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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If I'm ever to gain mastery over my temper, Lord, it will take your strength. I ask for that now.
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