Anger is a Zit

    The other day I found myself standing in the shower letting the water just run over me. My thoughts wandered to an experience with my sister that was very hurtful. After a while I found my self going over the scenario over again, however instead of her getting the upper hand, this time I would have my revenge. I would make her feel just as bad or worse than I felt when she did me wrong. Catching myself I realized I was angry at her and I had never really forgiven her like I had told myself and other people. In fact all I did was bury the emotions and leave it at that. Little do I know, that little bit of anger that I decided was a seed and while I ignore it, it just grows larger and larger. 

    (sorry for yet another morbit metaphor)Most people know what a Zit is... and every one know how painful they can be. Basically what happens with a zit is dirt or grime clogs a pore in your skin, your body is built to push that type of stuff out of your skin. To do this it secretes liquids that build up around that piece of dirt. Eventually, the secretions push that tiny peace of dirt out of your skin. However with a Zit, the pore is completely blocked and your skin has trouble pushing out on it's own. It's time, you have to pop it. If you don't pop it, all the zit will do is grow bigger until it explodes. In the mean time it stretches your skin and other tissues causing real damage. If you want that area of your skin to heal you must pop it.

    Anger is the same way. Once you have that seed of anger in your heart it is very hard to get healing. You have to pop it before it gets any bigger or it explodes. Later when I was going through the "Anger" section in the Freedom Class Manual (published by Revalesio Ministries), I realized that Paul clearly says this is the case in Ecclesiastes 7:9 "Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools." To say the least because I don't want Anger to be rooted in my heart at all... it was time to forgive my sister.