The last report I wrote was on the worldwide flood. I told a little about what happened and gave some scientific evidence for it. But something I did not spend a lot of time on was the ark that God told Noah to build. Just like everything God does or tells someone to do, the ark was very well designed. The Bible tells us a little bit about it, but there is a lot we can learn from it. First of all, the ark was not a little boat like the traditional “Noah’s Ark” in coloring books. The ark was huge! The ark was not as long as, but was wider than the Titanic. It was about a football field and a half long, and it was three floors high.

Of course, you know the reason God told Noah to build the ark. It was so that he, his family, and some of the animals would be saved from the flood that God was going to bring upon the whole earth. This pictured, or was a type of, the way God would provide for the saving of man’s soul. The flood pictures eternal death in the Lake of Fire, and the ark pictures salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. The only way someone could have been saved from the flood of God’s judgment was to accept God’s provision, the ark.

God told Noah to bring food into the ark for his family and the animals. God was going to save them from the flood, and He did not intend for them to starve on the ark. He was providing for their every need. It is like that when the Lord saves us. God has given us plenty of spiritual food in the Bible, and there is enough there to sustain us until our ride in the ark is over, and we reach our heavenly destination.

God also told Noah to build the ark with one door and one window. These are both a picture of something in the Bible, as well. The one door pictures the one way to salvation, which, of course, is through Jesus Christ, and Him alone! The door was the way God provided for Noah, his family, and the animals to get into the ark. They did not have to work their way into the ark; they just had to step in, and then they were in. They did not have to hope that when the flood hit they might have made it into the ark. The one window was in the top of the ark, and the light came from above! If we want light to understand God’s Word, we need to “look up” to God, and ask him for it.

Noah and his family did not know what was going to happen outside the ark. They had never seen a flood before! They could guess what it was going to be like, but they would not know for sure until it happened. That’s how it is with us. We don’t know what hell is like. None of us have ever been there! But by faith we believe to be true that which God has told us about it.

The Bible does not tell us this, but I think that perhaps the people that saw Noah building the ark mocked and laughed at him. Remember, they had never seen a flood before, either. Of course, we don’t know if that actually happened, but if it did, it did not keep Noah from obeying God. Noah also didn’t give up on the job because he thought it was taking too long. Noah was faithful.

When Noah was done building the ark (and it took him many years!), God brought the animals to Noah to the ark. Noah did not have to go out and find all of the different kinds of animals; God brought them all to Noah! Noah did not go out and force the animals to come into the ark. God was the one who put them into the ark. This is the way it is today; we can point people to our Saviour, but we can’t force them to accept Him. And we can’t do the saving, either. That part is up to the Lord.

Finally, Noah was finished building the ark, the food was in the ark, the animals were in the ark, and Noah and his family were in the ark. They were safe from the flood. The Bible says, in Genesis 7:16, that “the LORD shut him in”. Noah did not close the door on himself, but God shut the door (we don’t seal our salvation ourselves; God does)! God shut the door, and Noah did not get to leave the ark until the journey was over! Just like Noah, we cannot leave the ark (our salvation). John 10:27-29 says, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.” Isn’t our God wonderful! He provided for Noah, and he still provides for us today!

This is a little bit long, so if you don't want to read it all, I don't blame you. But I'd appreciate it if you did! I wrote this report in September, but not until today did my mom even read it and edit it! I forgot about it. And then I had another report that I put off until almost THE LAST minute, which I had to write today. So I spent a lot of time this afternoon on Microsoft Word! LOL. I'm planning on posting that next week. So, stay tuned!

The story of Noah and his ark has been made into somewhat of a fairy tale for children, as have a few other stories in the Bible. Many people do not believe that there actually was a worldwide flood. Others believe that there was a flood, but they do not believe that it was a worldwide flood. They say it was simply a local flood. What really happened? Well, first let’s look at what the Bible says. Then we will examine a sample of the physical evidence for a worldwide flood.

 
Adam and Eve sinned in the third chapter of Genesis, and everything went down from there. Man continued to neglect God and his words and commandments, and do things his own ways. In fact, only three chapters later, we read, “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.” (Genesis 6:5-7) It seems like it was a very short time between the first sin and when God decided to destroy the creation, but in reality, well over one thousand years had passed! That goes to show the longsuffering of the Lord!

 
Only one man “found grace in the eyes of the Lord,” and that man was Noah. You know the main story. God told Noah to build an ark. When the ark was finished, Noah, his family, and two of every kind of animal, entered the ark. God shut the door on the ark, and after seven days, it began to rain. Now, you must keep in mind that this was not some calm, drizzling rain, nor was it even pouring. You and I have never seen it rain as hard as it rained during the flood. This was a violent disaster! The Bible says that the mountains were covered. No wonder it had to rain so hard! It rained for forty days. After many more days of waiting, the earth had dried enough for Noah, his family, and the animals to leave the ark. Noah built an altar, offered sacrifices to God, and worshipped him. Then God set his rainbow in the clouds, promising that there would never be another worldwide flood again to destroy the creation.

 
There is evidence of a worldwide flood all around us! The flood was such a dramatic event that the entire planet was affected! Job 12:8-9 says, “Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?” Now I will explain why this was not a local flood, as many believe. First of all, if this was only a local flood, why did Noah have to build an ark? Wouldn’t it have been a lot faster and a lot easier for his family and the animals to travel to a different region until the flood was over? Also, God promised that never again would there be flood to destroy all flesh. There have been numerous local floods since then. If it was only a local flood in Noah’s day, then that makes God a liar. And Titus 1:2 states that God cannot tell a lie. Period.

 
Now let us look at some evidence that what the Bible says is true. Actually, we should have enough faith that we do not need to see some physical evidence, but such a flood as that could not possibly happen without leaving any effects. The first evidence I present to you is the legends of people groups around the world. According to Vance Ferrell, author of The Evolution Cruncher, out of forty-one different groups of people (most of them ancient races), all of them believed in a past destruction by a flood. Thirty-eight groups said that some humans were saved, and thirty-six groups believed that a boat saved them. Twenty-four of the forty-one groups agreed that the flood caused universal destruction, and fourteen groups said that the flood was caused because of man’s sins! As generations pass the story down, the details change a little here and there, but the main idea remains the same.

 
Some of most convincing evidence is the fossils found all over the world. Do you know what a fossil is? “Fossils are the remains of living creatures, both plants and animals, or their tracks… These fossil remains may be shells, teeth, bones, or entire skeletons. A fossil may also be a footprint, bird track, or tail marks of a passing lizard… Many fossils no longer contain their original material, but are composed of mineral deposits that have infiltrated them and taken on their shapes.” (Excerpts from The Evolution Cruncher, by Vance Ferrell) The recipe for fossils is mud, pressure, and lots of water. The flood could have done that! The key here is that fossils have to form rapidly -- otherwise the animal or plant will decay. A fossilized molting Marrella has been discovered (Marrella splendens is a soft-bodied arthropod). Molting takes place very quickly when an animal sheds its skin, or exoskeleton, so this is proof that the animal was buried and fossilized very quickly. This points to a flood.

 
The flood affected the climate. There is evidence that the entire earth was, at one time, a tropical planet with very few or no oceans. There were no deserts or high mountains. It was literally a tropical paradise! But, as we can see today, that has all changed! Although the earth has changed drastically as a result of the flood, our planet is still suited for life! God has made the world wonderfully! “Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!” (Psalm 107:31)

In Genesis chapter four, the Bible tells us about Adam and Eve's oldest two children, Cain, and Abel, and their offerings that they offered to the Lord. Adam and Eve must have taught their boys about the sacrifice that the Lord had made for them when they had sinned. The Bible does not tell us that they did, but we can assume that someone told the boys; otherwise, how would they have known they needed to make a sacrifice?

There is something interesting about the sacrifices the brothers made! If you read the account carefully, you will see that there is a difference in the materials used by Cain and Abel. Abel was a shepherd, and he brought a lamb out of his flock, while Cain, on the other hand, was a farmer, and he brought the fruit of the ground, whether that was fruit, vegetables, or perhaps beans or seeds. Abel brought an acceptable offering to the Lord, but the Bible says that “unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.” Obviously something was wrong here! If Cain had paid attention to what God had done for his parents, perhaps he would not have made the mistake that he did.

“Why was it so terrible that Cain brought his crops instead of an animal?” you may ask. The answer is that it has to do with what it pictures. In the Bible there are a lot of “types” -- things that really happened, but that represent something else as well. So what do the offerings of Cain and Abel represent? Abel’s offering pictures doing things God’s way, but Cain’s offering pictures vanity and self-righteousness.

The most obvious type in the offerings of Cain and Abel is that of how to receive the forgiveness of sins from the Lord. In the Bible, the only way we see for the forgiveness of sins, and salvation, is the shedding of blood. In fact, Hebrews states that “without shedding of blood is no remission.” Jesus is the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. There is no way that you can get blood out of a vegetable, or whatever Cain used for his offering. Abel’s offering, which was an animal, had blood, for the remission of sins. Also, Cain’s offering pictures the fruit of your works for your salvation (farming is work!). But Ephesians 2:8 and 9 says, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Cain’s offering pictured self-righteousness.

Something else that the sacrifices pictured is that of correctly serving the Lord. Cain’s offering represents trying to do the Lord’s service your own way and on your own terms. For example, if you were to start a hospital in Africa, saying that you were serving the Lord, well, you would not be serving the Lord, because he does not just call people to go start hospitals or medical missions (I’m not saying that it’s wrong to start hospitals in Africa, but if God called you to do something else, like be a preacher, and you decided to be a doctor and start a hospital instead, that would be wrong.) That would be an example of “serving the Lord” your own way, like Cain tried to do. But Cain was not accepted, and you wouldn’t be, either! But if you went to Africa to start a church, and you did it the way that God said it was to be done, well, then, that would be like Abel -- serving the Lord the way that he has respect unto.

Something to think about is that Abel offered sheep to the Lord, and sheep multiply. If you are serving the Lord by winning souls to him, then you are serving him correctly. The Lord will have respect to that. However, vegetables rot! Your own self-righteousness is only vanity and is like filthy rags in the sight of God! Let us be careful to always do things the way that the Lord has commanded us to!

The very first verse in the Bible tells us that God made the world. He made everything in it. He did not make it all at once; he did it over a period of six days. God was very orderly when he made the world. He did not make one kind of tree and five different kinds of beetles on Day One, and then on Day Two make the sun and a few fish. No, he made it all in a very orderly fashion and he did a perfect job.

First of all, how did God make the world? Did he blow really hard and everything just came together? No. Did he clap his hands? No. Did he take a bunch of building materials and design everything out of them? No. He spoke everything into existence. That means that he said, “Let there be,” and there was.

On Day One of Creation, God made light. The Bible says that God said, “Let there be light:” and there was light! Then he divided the light from the darkness. That may be hard to understand, because I don’t think any of us have ever seen light and darkness together! God called the light Day, and he called the darkness Night.

On Day Two of Creation, we see that God created a firmament. The Bible tells us that he did this to “divide the waters from the waters.” He created a division between the waters far, far away somewhere in outer space, and the waters here on earth. And then God called the firmament Heaven. This is not the same as the heaven were God’s children go when they die; this heaven is the sky and outer space.

On Day Three of Creation, God divided the waters from the dry land (otherwise it would probably just be all muddy soup) and named the dry land and the waters. And then God made plants. He made trees, herbs, and grass.

It was not until Day Four of Creation that God made the sun, moon, and stars. God made the sun, the “greater light”, to “rule the day” and the moon, the “lesser light”, to “rule the night”. God gave us the sun, moon, and stars for signs and to mark seasons, days, and years.

On the Fourth Day God made the birds and fish, including whales. On the sixth day God made bugs and land animals. Then finally, he made man. The Bible says that God made man to have dominion over all of the animals. That means that we are to be in charge and take care of them. It does not mean we should worship them -- neither does it mean that we are to abuse them. It simply means that we are to be good stewards of the earth that God has given us.

It is interesting to notice that God did not give all of the creatures he created on the Fourth Day meat for food. He gave them fruit, vegetable, and plants to eat. While this may seem strange at first, I think it was that because there was no death (before Adam and Eve sinned), there could be no killing of animals for meat. Therefore, since they had to eat something, God gave them the green plants.

Yes, God created a perfect world. It is interesting to study just what he made and how he made it.

This essay was the last assignment of the year for me -- I'm DONE WITH SEVENTH GRADE! I finished sometime last week! We not be starting up again until next July (most likely) or maybe August. So, here is my essay on the sin of lying.

Have you ever told a lie? Of course you have! We all have. But In Proverbs 6:19 it says that a false witness who speaks lies is an abomination to the Lord! The Bible says a lot about not telling lies. One of the Ten Commandments is about not telling lies. It is obviously not something that the Lord wants us to do!

What exactly is a lie? It is pretty easy to say that a lie is a falsehood, something that is not the truth. But what about half-truths? Is that exactly lying? Yes; NO lie is of the truth. Half-truths do not please God anymore than total lies. Satan often mixes truth and lies together.

There is a fine line between teasing and lying. If you are teasing someone and they know it, that is one thing and that is okay. But if they do not know that you are just joking, that is NOT okay, no matter what your intentions are! You may not lie on purpose, but it is still a lie; the other person took it for the truth.

One time when I was seven or eight someone told me that Wal-Mart was her favorite store and I believed her. I did not know she was being sarcastic until I found out a lot later. That was just a little thing, but I believed it! That is why we need to be careful about saying things to little children that are not true. Five-year-olds will believe the most ridiculous things, such as if they are told that the earth is millions of years old and that man evolved from apes!

What is another reason why God does not want us to always be telling lies to one another? Well, remember that the Lord does not make rules to torture us. He makes them for our good. One reason why lying would hurt you is that no one will trust you after you tell too many lies. They will never know when you are lying and when you are telling the truth! No one will take you seriously. The Lord does not want us to have to live like that. Proverbs 25:18-19 says, A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

Another reason why you should not lie is that if you tell a lie to cover something up, you will later have to remember what you said in case someone asks you! If you told the truth in the first place you would not have the problem of having to remember! You would just tell the truth again.

Yet another reason why we should not lie: God does not lie. Titus 1:2 says that God CANNOT lie. The Lord wants us to be like him, and lying is not like him; it is like the devil. The Bible says that Satan is the father of lies. Satan told the first lie recorded it the Bible. We know that God does not want us to be like Satan! Proverbs 19:5 says, A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

It is important to always tell the truth and never tell a lie. If you do something wrong you will probably get in more trouble for telling a lie than if you told the truth in the first place. Part of obeying the Lord and following His example in everything is to never tell a lie and to always tell the truth. He will bless you for it.

In five years I will be seventeen, and unless something happens to keep me from it, I expect to be graduating that year, also. That means that I will have more time to do other things. Some of the things I expect I will do are:

Help my little sisters with their schoolwork. When I graduate, my little sister Emily will only be eight years old and finishing third grade. I expect I will help her with some of her schoolwork, as well as my two other sisters, if they want me to. It will be easier for my mom to teach all of them if she does not have to help them all at the same time.

Cooking a few meals a week for my family. I think it would be a good idea for me to do this (probably even before five years from now!), as it will not only teach me how to cook, but also relieve my mother of the responsibility once in a while! After all, she’s been doing it all herself ever since she got married. Amy and I have just started helping her a little. And I need to learn how to cook, too.

Another thing I could be doing in five years is sewing my own clothes. This is another thing that would be very good for me to learn how to do. With such a limited selection of clothes out there to buy, it’s a good idea to be able to sew your own. And I think that it would be fun, too, once I learned how and could do it on my own without a lot of help.

Besides things pertaining to homemaking, something else I may like to do someday would be to start a business of making webpages or templates for people. Working with computers and designing websites is something that I really enjoy, and I like to do it for fun. That would be the best kind of business to have: getting paid for having fun!

Another thing that I enjoy doing that I could get paid for is writing. I love to write stories! Perhaps I could even get into non-fiction writing and make an e-book that I could sell to hundreds of people!

I don’t know exactly what I’m going to be doing in five years, but I know what I want to be; I want to be a godly young lady serving the Lord with my talents and abilities. I want to be a virtuous young woman. I want my price to be far above rubies.

Laziness

Slothfulness, or laziness, is not a good thing. The Bible talks much about it, and it never mentions it in a good light. Proverbs mentions it a lot. If you were to do a word search on “slothful” or “slothfulness” you would find numerous references.

So what is slothfulness? A definition of the word “slothful” is “inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle,” and the definition of the word “lazy” is “disinclined to action or exertion; naturally or habitually slothful; sluggish; indolent; averse to labor; heavy in motion.” When I think of these definitions I get a picture in my head of a person slumped down in an easy chair doing nothing, looking sluggish and bored.

However, it is possible to be lazy while you are actually doing something useful.  Say you are to sweep the kitchen floor. If you were lazy about doing the job you might not move things that would be in your way to sweep the entire floor, such as a trashcan, rug, etc. Second, you would not try to sweep the dirt off of every tile or stripe of the floor; you would just sweep wherever you happened to see some crumbs or dirt. Finally you would sweep it into a sort of pile, “try” to sweep it up into the dustpan (leaving lots behind and not bothering to get it ALL), and then dump the dirt into the trash. Some would miss the trashcan because you were so careless about dumping it in, but you would not bother to sweep it up. You would say, “Oh, well!” leave it there, and walk away.

That does sound kind of funny when you read it, but it proves the point. It is possible to do a job lazily. Ecclesiastes 10:18 says, “By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.” This, of course, only makes more work for someone else! And we know that is unfair and wrong, especially if that person is your mother (as it very well could be in the sweeping scenario!)

You say, “But what if being lazy and letting my things fall apart won’t create a mess for someone else. ­I don’t care.” We must remember that our belongings are really lent to us from the Lord, so that we can serve Him. It is poor stewardship to let the things that God has given us go to waste because we do not care to take care of them. Besides that, the day may come when you wish you had taken better care of your belongings, but it will be too late then to change your ways now.

Proverbs talks a lot about people who love sleep coming to poverty. Proverbs 24:33-34 says, “Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.” You have to work to eat, so obviously if you are too lazy to eat you will eventually starve! Proverbs 26:15 says “The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.”

One reason why we choose to be lazy (yes, it IS a choice!!) is that we do not want to give up our comforts and our pleasure to do something that is not as much “fun.” The object of life is not to have “fun,” though; it is to bring glory to the name of the Lord and honour Him! You cannot do that very well while being a sluggard. Proverbs 6:6-8 says, “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.” The ants are definitely not lazy! Have you ever seen an anthill with all of the ants just sitting around doing nothing? No! And, while the ants are working, do they look like they are so sad that they have to do it? Do they look like it is so hard and tiresome and boring? Of course not! God put the verses about the ants in the Bible for a good reason! He wants us to heed their good example!

It really is not worth it to be lazy. It may be “fun” for a little while, but then you will wish you had spent your time prudently and done what you should have done (I speak by experience!) Once you have wasted all of your time on pleasure you will become upset thinking about how much you still have to do! And then, if you are like me, you will just waste more time talking about how much you have to do.

Ephesians 5:15-16 says, “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” We need to spend our time wisely here on earth. James 4:14 says that our life is a vapour that “appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” Life is so short compared to eternity. We need to stop letting our comforts and desires get in the way of doing something useful. Soon enough life will be over, and then we will wish that we had spent our time more wisely! Ask the Lord to help you make good use of your time and not to be lazy. He will be glad to help you if you are sincere.

Thought I'd post a Bible Report I wrote on friendliness.

Friendliness

Here is a short Bible Report I wrote (though I haven't mastered this myself yet!  )

How You Can be Helpful in the Home 

A family is not just a bunch of people living together in the same house, but a family, where everyone does his or her share of the work for the good of everyone. However, it is not fair to give one person more work than the rest, either. Every one should be helpful to one another.

And everyone should be helpful around the house, too. If you see a piece of paper on the floor that does not belong there, pick it up. Do not leave it on the floor for someone else to pick up. Do not say, “I did not put it there, therefore I do not have to pick it up.” If everyone says this, no one will pick it up. Go willingly, with a servant’s heart, and pick up that piece of paper. If there is a job that needs to be done, do it.

Not all helpfulness is cleaning and putting things away, although that may be a great help. Sometimes just sitting down with a book and reading to a little sibling can help your mother a great deal, especially if the child has been begging for her mother’s attention all day.

Do not help grudgingly, though. If you are helping with a complaining spirit and putting as little into the job as possible, that is not helping. In fact, that may even create more work for someone else! Do your duties cheerfully and well.

Having a bad attitude will not help anything. However, if you have a sunny outlook and a good attitude about whatever you are told, you may be a big help. Suppose all of your siblings are fighting. Why tire your parents out more by joining in the fighting, complaining, or having a bad attitude? Rather, try to stop the fights, and be a peacemaker!

If you do not know what to do to help, ask your parents. They would be pleased to tell you how you can help.

Your reason should not be, “No one else is helping, and someone has to, so it might as well be me.” Do it “unto the Lord.”

The Bible says, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”

Here's my anger report... finally! Dad wrote the last paragraph for me.

Anger and Its Effects

One of the things I like about God is what the Bible says in Nehemiah 9:17, “…but thou are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness…” The Bible also says in Nahum 1:3, “The Lord is slow to anger…” Isn’t that a blessing that he is longsuffering? We should also be like him and not get angry quickly. James 1 mentions that we should be slow to wrath.

Did you know that a person who does not get angry easily is better than the mighty (see Proverbs 16:32)? A mighty man has a lot of physical strength, but he that controls himself has emotional and spiritual strength, which is much better. The Lord will not reward you for your physical strength, but you will be rewarded for your spiritual strength.

Why do people get angry? I think most of the time it is because things are not going the way they think they should. Anger is almost always the result of selfishness or discontent. That is not the right reason to be angry. Being angry because something crosses you is wrong -- that is selfishness. Also, if you are angry, you are disobeying God’s commandment to think of others before yourself. See Philippians 2:4.

Anger has negative effects. God wants us to rejoice in him, and for good reason. People who are constantly angry don’t have as many (if any!) friends as someone who is pleasant to be around. Who enjoys being around someone who is angry? The Bible says that we should not make friends with an angry person (see Proverbs 22:24-25). That verse says that if we hang around angry people long enough, we will become like them.

Anger can make you sick. Being angry or uptight can give you ulcers. Proverbs 14:17 says, “He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly:” When you are angry you may make foolish choices that you will wish you hadn’t made.

There is a right reason to get angry, though most of the time we humans are angry at the wrong thing. Psalm 7:11 says, “…God is angry with the wicked every day.” It is right to be angry at sin. The Bible says, “Be ye angry and sin not.” James 1:20 says, “The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”

Jonah was asked of the Lord, “Doest thou well to be angry?” His response showed how anger had gotten the best of him, “I do well to be angry, even unto death.”  Anger can consume your emotions, and leave you in a state of mind that is utterly useless to the Lord, as was shown by Jonah’s condition. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, leave your future in his hands, and rejoice in what and where he takes you, and you will have the victory over the sin of anger.