Day 79 - Dealing with Anger: Choose to Move Past It
Perhaps you are at the point at which you must now choose to move past your anger and bitterness. You have allowed yourself the time and opportunity to slowly vent your anger, and you have honestly expressed those feelings with others. When you are ready to move beyond your anger, be prepared to stick with that decision.
The night Heidi’s husband died in a plane crash, she prayed, “God, I know that You have a plan for my life. And I don’t want bitterness and anger to well up in my heart, because I have two young children, and we have to go on with our lives.”
Heidi says, “I made a decision that night not to become bitter and angry about the situation and not to blame God. Sure, I asked why and I didn’t understand, but I wasn’t going to blame God, and I wasn’t going to blame other people.”
You, too, can choose to move past anger with the Lord’s help.
“I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful” (1 Timothy 1:12).
Jesus, strengthen me to move beyond my anger and bitterness and to stay there. Amen.