Hasty words don’t taste very good, when we
have to eat them. Isn’t that the worst kind of indigestion?
Right now, everyone seems to be choosing up
sides over several particularly divisive issues. A President election campaign
is underway in the United States, and supporters of both major parties are
volleying back and forth with real and imagined offenses and accusations. Meanwhile,
on the global scene, terrorists are wreaking havoc in several spots and
threatening to do so in others.
Anger seems to be an international epidemic.
And the family is not immune.
Today’s Scripture addresses this volatility.
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry. (James 1:19)
Thanksgiving is
next week, and many families plan to gather for the big feast. Others do not.
I’ve been saddened
recently to hear of many feuding families and riled-up relatives, who refuse
one another’s company. Others show up for clan get-togethers, but snipe and snarl.
Still more essentially ignore each other, interrupting and talking over one
another until the entire event becomes a noisy verbal free-for-all.
It’s exhausting and
maddening, just trying to follow the tangled high-voltage conversational
threads.
But that’s not what the Bible says. A loose paraphrase of today’s verse might say something like this: “Don’t get mad. Get real.”
Ouch. Thank God for His saving grace.
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