#proverbs 16:32

Proverbs 16:32

Better a patient person than a warrior,

one with self-control than one who takes a city.

Better a patient man than a warrior. A man who controls his temper than one who takes a city. - Proverbs 16:32 While some people struggle with anger, others flaunt it. If we don’t control our anger, it will eventually destroy every precious relationship God has given us. Galatians 5:15 says, “If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.” Yet not all anger is wrong.  If you are not outraged by injustice, cruelty and corruption, you need to examine your heart. Let our anger be righteous and not unreasonable.

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Devotional for April 14

"He that ruleth his spirit [is better] than he that taketh a city." - Proverbs 16:32

Temperance is true self-government. It involves the grace of self-denial and the spirit of a sound mind. It is that poise of spirit that holds us quiet, self-possessed, composed, deliberate and subject to the voice of God and the conviction of duty in every step we take. Many persons do not have that poise and serenity. They are drifting at the impulse of their own impressions and moods, the influence of others or the circumstances around them.

No desire should ever control us. No purpose, however right, should have such mastery over us that we are not perfectly free. Our pure affection may be an inordinate affection. Our work itself may be a selfish passion. That thing that we began to do because it was God's will we may cling to and persist in, ultimately, because it is our own will.

Proverbs 16:32 32. Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.