I was playing bridge yesterday with six tables of rather elderly people at a local recreation center. It was freezing in the room. After two hours of various people asking the director to increase the heat. I asked John the man who is our fearless leader to speak to her. Thinking that a man might get further than a woman. He did and afterwards he went directly to the control box on the wall and set the thermostats higher himself. If I knew we could do that I would have done it myself. Nevertheless, Kim the director of the recreation center came in and started messing about with it. It was still cold in the room, everyone had their jackets on. And I don't know what happened I must have gone on automatic, maybe I don't want to remember, but I lost it. I started raising my voice and got very angry internally. She's rather condecending to the older people and was telling me that she wasn't cold and we should be wearing jackets. Now in her little cubicle she's as snug as a bug in a rug, but in the big room that we use, it was cold. The long and the short of it was I lost it. I got very angry at her. To the point I really wanted to punch her lights out. Now that leads to my question for today.
How can you be spirit filled and lose it so easily?
Where is self control, the fruit of the spirit? Why doesn't it manifest when you need it?
How do you handle anger or rage as a believer?
How do we train ourselves and our children to develop self control?