The Price of Anger

“In your anger do not sin…”  Ephesians 4:26

Expensive, terrible products of an uncontrolled temper:

1.      Violence in the home, school and community.

2.      Punishment for the innocent. Coming home from work angry and taking out your   frustrations on your family and even the family pet.

3.      An atmosphere of uneasiness that causes mistakes to be made and repeated.  The high-tempered person is impossible to please.

4.      Destruction to physical and emotional health.

To control the temper:

1.      Recognize how destructive it is!

2.      Ask God for help.

3.      Ask loved ones to pray for you.

4.      Resolve that temper control requires a daily effort!

THINK!!!

A STIFF NECK usually supports an EMPTY HEAD.

The wheels of progress are not turned by “CRANKS.”

Some drink deeply of the foundation of knowledge while others get just enough to gargle.

The person who boasts about being “self-made” is usually just another example of unskilled labor.

The easiest thing to find is F A U L T.

If you didn't start today with a smile; it is not too late to begin practicing for tomorrow.   

YES, MANNERS MATTER!!!

Courteous words set the stage for a better day in the home.  So often a potentially good day is destroyed by crude, thoughtless remarks.  Keep your words sweet… you never know when you have to eat them.

Courteous actions make for efficiency whether in the work-place, the classroom, or the highway.  Discourtesy creates a dangerous atmosphere of antagonism that can cause accidents or acts of violence.

Developing habits of basic courtesy will do much for your appreciation of yourself. After all who wants to live with a rude person 24 hours a day?

Yes, manners matter… remember that you have to work at creating good habits… only the bad ones grow wild.  

LIFE HAS A 'GRAMMAR' LESSON FOR EACH OF US

Live in the active voice, not the passive.  Think more about what you make happen than what happens to you.

Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry for the future.

Live in the first person, seeking to develop your life rather than finding fault with others.

Live in the singular number, caring about the approval of God for your conscience instead of going for the applause of the crowd.

And for a verb to conjugate, no one can find a better one than “to love.”  Use I Corinthians 13 as the guide. 

What is your choice?

CHOICES:

Feed your mind on God’s bread of life or suffer indigestion on Satan’s junk food.

Bring happiness WHEREVER you go instead of WHENEVER you go.

Cultivate habits that are worthwhile…only bad habits grow wild.

Discipline yourself to be a solution to life’s problems rather than simply drifting as another problem in this world.

Recognize that while knowledge has its limitations that ignorance is LIMITLESS.

RESPECT:  “Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.”  Ecclesiastes 12:13

Are you more than "average?"

“Life is a series of collisions with the future.”

Because of this daily collision, we owe it to ourselves to remember:

The goal of life is to live, not just exist.  Andrew Carnegie observed: The average person puts only 25% of his energy into his work. The world take off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity and stands on its head for those few-and-far between souls who devote 100%.

Let us resolve to be more than average.  Being average means that you are as close to the bottom as you are to the top.  Being average is being the best of the worst and the worst of the best.

GOD CREATED US TO BE MORE THAN “JUST AVERAGE.”

Want to make this a better day?

To make this a BETTER DAY, remember:

“We live in deeds, not years;

in thoughts, not breaths;

in feelings, not in figures on a dial.

We should count time by heart throbs.

He most lives who thinks most,

feels the noblest, acts the best.”

Created in the image of God, you and I have the opportunity to discipline ourselves to careful thinking… to distinguish between good and evil… and with the grace and forgiveness of God to seek to live the best way we can.