#Day 83: 23 March 2016

BATTLE WITH ANGER

Day 83 devotion is late and I apologize for this.

Ephesians 4:26-27 NIV -“In your anger do not sin” : Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.

It was a hectic day at work having my managing director in town and also all the other work. Nothing new, they are all my job responsibility.

During lunch I received a call from Elsye that Nissan service center charging her a total of 3466MYR for her 90.000 km regular service.

I directly lost my appetite and all the tiredness somehow transformed into anger. I was angry and blame the service center for scam, for bullying my wife.

It was a battle as I have a hectic activities and one of them is the important meeting with my managing director.

As best as I can I tried to focus and thank God and Holy Spirit, everything went well. Praise be to God for the blessing of focus and self control.

I finished the night with our management team with a nice dinner in town.

I thought I managed to conquer the anger, I thought I win the battle. I was wrong.

As soon as I reached office, I start to read the invoice and that anger is back. I am not proud of it, but I was just angry and I thought I just need to release it. And the sad thing is, Elsye became to sandbag of it (btw, when I am angry I choose to be in silent).

Proverbs 19:11 MSG says smart people know how to hold their tongue; their grandeur is to forgive and forget.

After a while I know I cannot let my anger win, I decided to take my guitar and sing. Praising God, singing and giving thanks. And again, praise God in His place, as He calms the storm, He calms my heart.

It was midnight when I was done singing. And decided to sleep and takes care of Nissan service center tomorrow morning.

Another day full of blessing. I learn deeply that in battle with anger, I need Him, who calms the storm.

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