Danger In Our Anger!
"Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the expression on
his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego.
He spoke and commanded
that they heat the furnace seven
times more than it was
usually heated."
Daniel 3: 19
During the six-year reign of Queen “Bloody” Mary in England
(1553-1558), the Catholic monarch put to death three hundred
Protestant leaders of the breakaway Church of England, most
by burning at the stake.
Sometimes, sympathetic executioners
tied a bag of gunpowder around the necks of the condemned
to hasten their death once the flames reached high enough.
Think about it: to make death excruciatingly painful, you would
make it slow, not fast. When King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
condemned three friends of Daniel to a fiery death, he ordered
the furnace to be heated seven times hotter than normal.
They would literally die the moment they were exposed to
the horrendous fire; hardly suffering at all! The king was
so “full of fury” that he lost touch with reality. That is
what anger has the potential to do.
The apostle Paul knew that, which is why he commanded
Christians not to let anger fester or to “give place to the
devil” (Ephesians 4:27). Don’t let anger be the cause of
irrational actions.
"Whatever begins in anger,
ends in shame."
Ben Franklin
