….what do you do with it?! Hmmm? How do you make it go away? It sucks when you carry it around. It eats you up on the inside and ruins your day. It’s a crazy thing… because on the one hand you love thinking over the things that angered you in the first place, love the feeling of victimization and injustice it causes, love wallowing in selfishness…. but on the other you hate how it consumes you, and perverts the truth, it blinds the eyes and fills the heart with bitterness. On the one hand you wanna inflict the same pain on the one who caused it, while on the other you want freedom from the chains and bondage it brings…

anger.

There has to be more to it than just thinking the words, “i forgive you,” or internally choosing to “let go.” Yes, it starts there… you can’t get anywhere unless there is an inner “setting of the heart” to love…. but for some reason… that’s just not enough. Dang it! There has to be an outward proclamation, a renewing of the mind, a continual reinforcement of positive attitude.

a confession of anger.

“BE ANGRY, AND yet DO NOT SIN; do not let the sun go down on your anger” Eph. 4:26.

“Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions” Mark 11:25.

Then Peter came and said to Him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven” Matt 18: 21-22.