Being Too Strong in Disagreements (TMF:2166)

Monday, August 28, 2023
Peace to Live By: Being Too Strong in Disagreements (TMF:2166) - Daniel Litton
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       Regardless, we don’t want God upset with us because we are too strong in our disagreement with another that we cannot let it go. Recall the verse that says, “Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil” (Ephesians 4:26-27, ESV). Perhaps it really is true that we are somehow right. Even so, we might initially get upset at first, but we need to learn, if we haven’t already, to let our being upset pass in a short amount of time. If we don’t, we allow the upset-ness to take root, and in taking root, we lose control of ourselves. It could be too that we could find ourselves in the future doing the very same thing, or something similar, that we are upset with the person about. It’s not that we are perfect and everyone else isn’t, as we so often like to believe. That’s just not the case no matter how much we are convinced. It’s like the Apostle John has told us, “If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us” (1 John 1:10, ESV).