Anger

     Anger, we all feel it, we've all been angry at some point in our lives or another, probably more than once. Anger is, I believe, one emotion that every person dead or alive, young or old, past, present and future have in common. When it comes to EMS anger is most often seen by people who just lost a loved one or who just received bad news, such as a bad diagnosis. People become angry at the EM T's, at the doctors, at themselves, and even at the disease themselves. There's one more person that they become mad at through all this that I haven't mentioned yet, God. You often here things like "God this is all your fault." "I prayed for help and you didn't answer, you abandoned me" "Why would you let this happen to me?" Things like this are often heard and sometimes, after they're said people lose there faith for a period of time thinking that God has completely abandoned them, this isn't true.
     Lets focus on anger where it applies to and with God. Throughout our lives we often become angry for reason so numerous to list, for example; I, on more than one occasion, get mad because I couldn't get a jar open. We become angry over small things but also over larger more important things than pickle jars. It is the large things we tend to blame God for, loss of someone important to us, when things we don't go the way we were hoping or planning for, when this happens we become so furious we blame what we feel is to blame, God; God made it storm, God made me bad with money, God let me get sick, God, God, God. It's so easy to blame him isn't it? So easy to make it all someone Else's fault, and maybe that's one of the best things about God, he can take it, when we come on hard times he's willing to help us through them, even it it means taking the blame for things.

     Psalms 37:8 "Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; It tends only to evil." think about this for a moment. If we stay angry, our judgement becomes clouded, we think only out of anger and rage, and in those thoughts, Satan dances."

For example;

 Proverbs 29:22 "A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression." 

Or even

 Proverbs 30:33 "For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife." 

     These verses, while worded differently, state in my opinion, the same thing. If we give into anger and wrath we cause ourselves and those we love pain and suffering, and we fall into a life of sin and carelessness, losing the glory of God. Anger makes a person do things they more often than not would never consider, and will regret in the future.

     If, when we become angry we would put our anger aside, we can over come it with help from Christ. All we need to do is ask for his help. God is never far from the sounds of your crying, All we have to do is clear our minds and ask that God would lay him calming hands on us and wrap us in his presence and help up to forgive those who caused us to be angry and move on with our lives.

 Proverbs 19:11 "Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense." 

Basically put if we use good sense and ask for God's help, we can overlook any transgression committed against us, and wrongs we can forgive and know that God will make things right. If we do this we will avoid doing things that we will regret and that would cause God to look on us with shame.
     Remember that one of God's commands to us was "love thy neighbor as thyself."  Would you have your neighbor angry with you? Would you stay mad at your best friend for something pointless and meaningless? No one likes to have someone angry with them, it causes us to hurt and worry and we often end up losing someone dear to us. If you learn nothing from studying the bible, remember this, at one point God looked down on this Earth, the Earth he had created, he looked down on us with love and compassion, even when we showed him nothing but sin and transgression. He could have become angry and wiped us off the face of the planet and replaced us with something else like cat people, but he didn't anger. He loved us so much that he offered his only son Jesus, to be born on Earth so that he might be crucified and sacrificed so that we may be saved. I leave you with this last verse from;

 Ephesians 4:26-28 "Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity for the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need."