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ACTING OR REACTING

May 7th – Capsule 7

TOPIC: ACTING OR REACTING

BIBLE TEXT: HE that is soon angry dealeth foolishly – Proverbs 14 vs. 17

The little girl was in a bad mood, so she took out her frustration on her younger brother. At first she just teased him, then she punched him, pulled his hair and finally kicked him in the shin. He could take it all until the kicking began. That hurt! So he went home crying to his mother who said to her daughter, “Mary, the devil made you pull your brother’s hair and kicked his shins”.
She thought it over for a moment, and then answered – “maybe the devil did make me, but kicking him was my own idea”.

Blaming the devil for everything can be a cop-out. All the evil in the world doesn’t necessarily come from him. A lot of it comes from the heart. Jesus said, “out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies”. (Matthew 15 vs. 19). What we do with our anger and frustrations is subject to all our will.

You can choose how you respond to stress, and to the behavior of others. You can either act or you react. When you react, you give control to other people and other things. But when you act according to the Word, you can change that person or circumstance, and end up feeling better about yourself.


Prayer: Lord Jesus, overshadow me with grace and Spirit of self-control, so, I can act and not to react to people, circumstances, etc.

Insight: You are going to get another chance to do it God’s way!

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  1. Unknown5/7/21, 4:01 PM

    Powerful Message. May God help us to control & Rule over the spirit of anger.

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