Your Anger Is Doing Damage - All The Word for Today Daily Devotionals for 2025

‘Do not be quickly provoked' Ecclesiastes 7:9 NIV (2011 Edition)
ANGRY OUTBURSTS are destructive in all relationships, especially in your home. Children are the most vulnerable to parental anger, and they mirror their parents' behaviour. We shape our children's destiny by our words, behaviours, and attitudes, and if they're raised in a home that's consistently high-volume, they'll react similarly. Your actions are training your children to be hysterical and violent. Soon everyone will be overreacting, flying into fits of rage, and attacking one another. When you exhibit tantrum-like behaviour you're acting out a selfish need to get what you want, when you want it, in the way you think you ought to have it. Please - for your family's sake - start acting like and adult, exhibiting self-control. ‘Imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises' (Hebrews 6:12 NKJV). Notice, you must have faith and patience. You may not be able to control what happens in life, but you can certainly control your reaction. Whether it's the anger a father brings home from the workplace, or a wife's anger towards her husband, it can bring a curse. Simeon and Levi harboured anger in their hearts and became vicious and vindictive murderers. Because of this, a curse came upon them, and the anger was passed down from generation to generation (see Genesis 49). You must break the curse by resisting the temptation to let anger dictate your behaviour. In the words of James: ‘My dear brothers, take noteEveryone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires' (James 1:19-20 NIV 1984 Edition).

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