This morning in our family worship we were reading Proverbs 17.  The Holy Spirit highlighted vs. 14 & 19 dealing with quarrels.  I took a "real life" example in our home of using someone else's property without asking.  We talked about the difference between a "response" & a "reaction".  Reacting is what the flesh does while responding is motivated by the Spirit & the Word.  That's what the pain started.  I realized that I was the worst offender in the house on this issue!  The kids learned it from me!  I have been under conviction about my angry spirit.  There is such a harsh edge to me & it is having a negative effect on my whole family.  Then to top it off, one of our memory chapters is James one & we quoted together, "Be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.  Remember, your anger can never make things right in God's sight."  I "know" that my anger comes from a stubborn desire to be served & to have it my way.  I also know that I must replace the lie with the truth (God's precepts).  Today I echo the word's of St. Paul  in Romans 7:24 & 25a, "O wretched man that I am!  Who will deliver me from this body of death?  I thank God-through Jesus Christ our Lord!"

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Posted by edziadul

It's a good thing you're so handsome or I'd never put up with you!!! (just kidding!) (about the putting up with you part, not the handsome part)

You're doing great. I appreciate what you are doing with the kids in the morning during Bible time. Regardless of what else gets accomplished during the day, as long as we have done Bible time, we are ahead of the game.

I love you.

Elizabeth
(your wife)

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