Anger
"Wise role models are a good thing to have.
If you can control your anger, you'll help your
children see the wisdom in controlling theirs."
If you're saved by grace then you're in a battle between the flesh & the Spirit. We often refer to it as the "old man nature" (flesh) and the "new creature"(washed clean by the Blood of the Lamb).
You would be surprised to hear of so many, many people who say that they cannot control their temper. Yet when they are in the presence of certain people (pastors, other parents, public places, police, etc.) they somehow control their temper.
We, as people, do what we can get away with until someone sooner or later will straigthen us out. Then we learn our limits with certain people and respect their authority or power over us.
I personally found my limitations when I found Jesus. I use to have so much anger stored up in me and would unleash it on anyone that would get in the way of me doing what I wanted to do. I was a terrible, ugly, rotten person.
Then one day Jesus came into my life (March 1994) and changed my life forever. There came a calm & peace in me that was overwhelming. I didn't understand what was happening to me at first. I just simply didn't want to hurt anybody again. I wanted to love everyone & be friends with them.
Jesus changed me so much that that "old man" seems like a total stranger to me! Now I really can't see me like I was then. Now I will tell you that I have been put to the "TEST" time & time again to see if that "old nature" would come back again. Thus far Jesus has kept me in His calm & peace. One day I hope to be able to say like the Apostle Paul "none of these things move me".
We can only live one day at a time. Don't live one day without Jesus Christ. "I (old man nature) die daily". If you don't know Him as your Lord & Saviour then I urge you to find Him today.
Elton