Anger Driven People

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Anger Driven People

Phil 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Phil 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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People's lives are driven by something. What drives your life? In other words what seems to be the major focus of your life that carries over into every area of it?
If the question were put to family and friends, what would they say is the driving force of your life?

The dictionary meaning of the verb drive is "to guide, to control or direct".

Some negatives things that drive people are things such as, anger, fear, materialism, a need for approval , guilt etc..

Anger driven people hold on to the negative things that happen to them in life and never get over them. They don't release pain by giving forgiveness and receiving it as well. What happens is they continually rehearse what "they" did to me, over and over again in their minds and in their conversations. Those things control their lives. You will hear these folks say that they are "hurt". Hurt translates into anger that has never been released from their hearts.

As a result resentment builds up over the course of days, months, or even years. Some people that have resentment built up in them internalize their anger which makes them withdraw and clam up. Others blow up, exploding spewing out their venom on others. Neither of these is good for relationships to be built that are good, productive and Christlike.

The anger driven person is the one who ends up being the worse for wear in all of this. As they hold on tho their pain through their anger and resentment, the person or persons that they are holding on to their anger over is moving on unaffected and the angry person is locked into their past unable to move on to the better things of life that the Lord has for them.

Past hurts and people can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to the pain, anger and resentment. Unless you forgive and let go of it your life will be built on bitterness. One needs to learn from what they have been through and move forward in their life.

Job 5:2 Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

Eph 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Eph 4:27 Neither give place to the devil.


Just a thought for today!
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Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner