Deal with it quickly.
Ephesians
4:26-27 says, “Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not
give the devil an opportunity.” Satan wants you to dwell on your feelings and let them grow. But God
asks you to deal with anger.

In some instances of extreme pain and suffering—for instance, a drunk driver kills your son or daughter—you won’t be able to get rid of your anger before the sun sets.

But you should acknowledge your feelings and decide that you will deal with them. You shouldn’t
just accept rage as a natural response and allow it to become part of your life.

May your anger be less today. Michael

Noah needed strong faith to build an ark, despite the ridicule of his neighbors. But he trusted God when
He said there would be a flood. Although Paul was persecuted, stoned, imprisoned, beaten, and eventually martyred, he didn’t compromise his convictions.

When the authorities told Peter and John to stop preaching about Jesus, they replied, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge; for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:19-20).

The Lord wants us to live by conviction. Unfortunately, most people live by preference. They ask
themselves, What do I desire?What is the easiest or best for my life?What will bring the most satisfaction
or acceptance? For a believer, our decisions should be based on personal convictions—strong beliefs we
hold based on the truth of God’s Word—rather than our preferences.

What do you want to do today?  What does God want you to do today?  I hope they match.  Michael

As Dr. Chalmers well says, "Sin is that scandal which must be rooted out from the great spiritual household over which the Divinity rejoices . . . Strange administration, indeed, for sin to be so hateful to God as to lay all who had incurred it under death, and yet when readmitted into life that sin should be permitted; and that what was before the object of destroying vengeance, should now become the object of an upheld and protected toleration. Now that the penalty is taken off, think you that it is possible the unchangeable God has so given up His antipathy to sin, as that man, ruined and redeemed man, may now perseveringly indulge under the new arrangement in that which under the old destroyed him?

Does not the God who loved righteousness and hated iniquity six thousand years ago, bear the same love to righteousness and hatred to iniquity still? . . . I now breathe the air of loving-kindness from Heaven, and can walk before God in peace and graciousness; shall I again attempt the incompatible alliance of two principles so adverse as that of an approving God and a persevering sinner? How shall we, recovered from so awful a catastrophe, continue that which first involved us in it? The cross of Christ, by the same mighty and decisive stroke wherewith it moved the curse of sin away from us, also surely moves away the power and the love of it from over us."

Sin kills.  Give it no ground in your life. Michael.