This blog entry is the beginning of new hope for this blog! I intend to actually start writing on it... regularly. If anyone else would like to do the same, let me know and I’ll sort it out for you.
So, this is my first entry of sorts. Its kind of devotional.
“Don’t let the Sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.” Ephesians 4:26
The meaning of this command is obvious. We should keep short accounts with each other. You could put it this way, ‘all accounts should be closed by days-end.’ Don’t go to bed fuming.
There are many ways to deal with your anger. Sometime you will have to talk things through with the person who has offended you. Sometimes you will just have to deal with it in prayer and decide to forgive. Either way, do it FAST! Jesus said as much when he spoke these words: So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. (Matt 5:23-24)
Keeping short accounts with each other guards us from becoming bitter. When issues are allowed to crawl and creep below the surface they do damage to you, and to others, and to our relationships as a church! I wonder if you would ever think in the terms Paul uses tho, that it gives opportunity to the devil!
What opportunity does it give him? The devil opposes God’s work. We learn in the first half of Ephesians, most particularly Eph 2:11-22 that God is bringing a diverse group of people together and building them into a temple for himself. God’s work is to bring us together. The devils work is therefore to drive us apart.
Before you go to bed tonight, ask yourself this, “Do I want to co-operate with God’s work in the world or rather help the devil as he seeks to undermine that work?” If your answer is the former, then get on your knees and deal with any anger or hostility you have towar
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