Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 1158 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Move Away From Anger - Ask Gramps


Wisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.  Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.  Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1158 of our Trek and time for our Philosophy Friday series.  Each Friday, we will ponder some of the basic truths and mysteries of life, and how they can impact us in creating our living legacy.  As we continue on this trek called life, sometimes we have questions about life, so our Friday trek is a time where we can ‘Ask Gramps.’   Gramps will answer questions that you would like to ask your dad or granddad, but for whatever reason, this is not possible.  No matter how old we are, I know that all of us would like the opportunity to ask dad or gramps questions about life in many areas.

We may mix it up a bit on our Friday episodes, but will strive to keep them down to earth and enjoyable.   If you have any questions that you would like to ask Gramps, please email them to guthrie@wisdom-trek.com

So the question for this week is:

“Hey, Gramps, I desire to be a patient and kind person, but there are times where it seems my anger gets the better of me, and I lash out, only to feel defeated afterward.  Do you have any wisdom to help me control my anger?”
Move Away From Anger
I believe that all of us have an issue with anger.  There may be times and seasons, where it is harder to control, but it still is possible to live a life where we control our anger or direct our anger in a constructive and beneficial direction.  Some people don’t seem to get angry on the surface, but underneath a calm demeanor is a boiling cauldron of rage that is likely to explode.  Others become very passive/aggressive with their anger, which can be just as destructive to those who are on the receiving end of it.

There was a man who tried to defend his bad temper by saying, “I explode, and then it’s over with”  It may be to that person, but just like a volcano, that man does not understand or realize that his anger leaves a path carnage behind

As Aristotle once wrote, “Anyone can get angry… but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy”  I would say that is very true.  Few are the persons that can fill all of those categories.The Apostle Paul teaches us in Ephesians 4:26-27 And “don’t sin by letting anger control you.” Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry,  for anger gives a foothold to the devil.

God does permit us to be angry on certain occasions.  In other words, it is not always sinful to experience or even display anger, but in the same verse, Paul warns us not to let our anger lead us to sin.  Anger can be so destructive because actions taken, and words spoken in anger cannot be taken back, nor is the damage easy to repair.  Anger gives the devil a foothold in our lives that if allowed to continue will destroy us and those we become angry with.

We need to allow God’s Holy Spirit, who resides within us to warn us when our anger becomes sinful, so we can avoid those situations.  This is usually more obvious to others, than it may even be to ourselves.  We may need to allow those close to us to help us with this.  Burst of temper resulting in rage, lack of control, the desire to hurt another person, and profanity are not righteous anger.  Far from it.