These words should be mounted in BIG letters in Congress and on the walls of every school. Life cannot be about anger and raised voices. I should know. I have a problem with my anger. Not all of the time but…it happens more than it should. Ever since I became a pastor at a small church, God has changed that part of me so that it doesn’t show up nearly as often. My wife has never heard me raise my voice, only my son has heard that part and I’m ashamed to admit it.
I suppose I’m like my Dad in that respect. I remember his raised voice from many years ago. Thankfully he wasn’t violent and he didn’t hit me or my Mom. God gives each of us a spirit but until we surrender our lives to Him, our human nature gets to “play” more than our spirit. Sometimes that is not a good situation nor a good outcome in many instances. Seek to know Jesus as your Savior and let Him change your spirit and your nature so that you will be more like Him rather than being the sinful person that your nature tries to mold you into. God know who you really are and only He can move you into the direction to be the child that He knows you can be.
So many days I have felt this way and it’s hard to explain why other than to say that its because of Jesus and the salvation that He gives us. I can’t imagine living day to day without Him. I know that I did before I accepted Him as my Savior, but I don’t remember how I did it without being depressed all of the time.
God loves us. He doesn’t love our sinful ways that we live in before we feel the conviction to give our life to Jesus. I do know that during my high school years I was depressed much of the time. That’s probably why I drank so much, but I’m not going down that rabbit hole. I finally got out of that situation and became a better person to myself, but it took a while.
Seek to know Jesus as your Savior. Read the books of John and Romans and pray that He will call you to be His.
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