ANGER AND PRESSURE COOKER
Pressure cooker is very much similar to an angry person. It’s common use is to soften or tenderize a hard meat. An angry person experiences hardness of the heart.
When you try to open a pressure cooker at boiling point, someone will surely get hurt. If you’re unsure, TRY IT! When you open your mouth in your anger, someone will surely get hurt.
Proverbs 29:22 says, “An angry person stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered person commits many sins.”
At boiling point, you will hear the “chi chi chi chi” sound from the pressure cooker which means it is releasing the pressure. Once the sound is gone, it is now safe to open it and enjoy a softened meat.
Whenever you feel the pressure and anger towards a person, do not say a word. Instead, do the chi chi chi pressure release by talking to God. He understands that we feel angry at people and circumstances like what happened to Jonah.
Jonah 4:9
And God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry because the plant died?” Yes,” Jonah said, “it is; it is right for me to be angry enough to die!”
Tell Him you are angry and in need of His help.
Tell God to take control of your heart, mind, and tongue.
Tell God to soften your heart and give you a forgiving heart.
Release the pressure to God and enjoy a softened heart.
God bless!
SO DISAPPOINTED!!
By nature we get disappointed with circumstances and people for different reasons.
…We become so disappointed because of our high expectation.s
…We become disappointed when things don’t happen our way.
…We become disappointed when people don’t do as we say.
…We become disappointed when people go against our plan.
…We become disappointed when we are not satisfied.
As a result, we become angry, we take things personally and we try to avoid people or runaway from them, work and even church.
Let me share my “humiliating” but worth sharing story. There was a time when I got so disappointed, angry, and disrespectful with one of my mentors when I was new in the ministry. I felt like he was going against my plans, my programs and my strategy. I got mad because I thought I knew better.
Praise God! He rebuked me through my wife, she reminded me that I should respect and obey the leaders God appoint us.
I was reminded that God appoints people and leaders to caution and be accountable with us.
>I may know many things but He knows everything.
>I maybe experienced but He is sovereign
>I may come up with brilliant ideas but He knows what’s best for us.
>I may have the strategy but He planned everything
I immediately called my mentor and ask for forgiveness for acting arrogantly.
Indeed everything happens for a reason. Life lessons that will make us become better or if we are stubborn we will become bitter.
Proverbs 16:9
A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.
Are you disappointed?
