Dealing with Anger: Bible Verses - Day 78

Dealing with Anger: Bible Verses
Day 78

Another practical suggestion for dealing with anger is to draw help from Bible verses. Dr. John Trent recommends that you start by writing down an appropriate Bible verse on a three-by-five card. Every time you begin to feel angry, take out the card and read the verse. Then write the date on the back of the card and place a check mark next to it.

This practice will first of all link God's Word with your active anger. It will also provide a written record of how angry you are and whether or not you are showing improvement. As you continue this practice, you will begin to realize that anger is a choice.

"But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve ... But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD" (Joshua 24:15).

Almighty God, grant me the perseverance to follow through on these anger management ideas and to follow through in a relationship with You. Amen.

~ I really appreciate today's email. I like the idea of keeping scripture handy and then jotting down when you apply it. I often forget when I was angry last even if it was just yesterday. That means that I didn't really deal with it and so that would be why there is such a fast turn around on it coming back; it really never left. I just swallowed it and let it fester. It is time to move forward. It is time to say out loud what I am still holding on to and give it to God and let it go. He knows, but to admit it out loud to God and to myself will allow me to release it. Now, to just find the Word that is going to help me to progress and heal. :)