Slow to wrath

Jas 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

The Father of lights.
God created the light, remember?

Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

God created the main source of our natural light- the sun. And He created the moon and the stars - all light sources or reflectors of light.

Gen 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Gen 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Gen 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Gen 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
Gen 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

God truly is the Father of lights. And NOT only is He the Father of- the Creator of lights, He is the Father of the LIGHT of the world- Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.

Joh 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Every good thing comes from God, every truly good thing. Just because our perception is skewed from thousands of years of sin and so many call evil good, and good evil, doesn't mean that God is the Father of evil things. We call a lot of perverted, disgusting things good because we've had our senses so incredibly dulled by Satan. We need to fall before God on our knees and pray that we aren't duped by the evil one who has taken so many people's eternal lives through His perversions. This isn't a popular way to talk at all, this is frown upon by people because they simply do NOT want to hear truth, it goes against their comfortable existence living side by side with Satan's evil they've accepted as good. No one wants to be told that the majority of things they love, the things they like, the things they've embedded into their routine of life all are evil. No one likes it, no one. We come face to face with the evil in our lives and we make a choice whether to accept it or not. We can choose to continue on without changing a thing- this is the power of choice we have- and we can choose our own path. God offers us life- and He offers us ALL good gifts, ALL perfect gifts. Does this mean we'll have all things happy, happy, NO! We've talked about this a lot. The happiness we need to seek is ONLY found in our SAVIOR! If we seek for happiness elsewhere we are only setting ourselves up to fall over and over and over again! It'll be an endless rollercoaster- never ending torture and we'll put ourselves through it because we can find happiness, we can find incredible happiness called JOY in our Lord!


Jas 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Jas 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

By the will of our LORD we all have come into existence. The apostles, the disciples that lived when our Savior walked the earth and for several years after He ascended to heaven were truly a kind of firstfruits- they were the first to live in a world after the promised Messiah's coming. No others had ever lived in that time, not one. And because these men and women lived in this time, this new existence they were cautioned…

'Be SWIFT to HEAR.'
'Be SLOW to SPEAK.'
'SLOW to WRATH.'

Is this EVER bad advice? Seriously, is it?

I know I am VERY guilty of jumping right in there to offer my thoughts, my opinions on things without taking any time to hear, truly hear. And as for being slow to wrath, I have to hang my head in shame over and over again because my wrath all too often seems to come instantaneously.

Jas 1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

And that wrath of mine will NOT work the righteousness of God.

That instant wrath of mine goes against God.

Please Lord, please help me to be swift to hear- help me to learn to LISTEN so much more than I do. Please Lord, please help me be slow to speak- help me learn to be quiet, to learn that I don't have to be heard like I all too often believe I do.
Please Lord, please help me to be slow to wrath- help me keep my instant temper in check, please, help me Lord I don't want to work anything that isn't the righteousness of God.

By YOUR GRACE LORD!

In YOUR LOVE!

Amen.