“If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me" Matthew 16:24
This morning, I read a news article about a woman who was frustrated in a McDonald's Drive Thru. It seems that she was upset because they did not have the food item that was listed on the menu and as a result, she pulled a gun on the worker!! Where is all this anger coming from? Every day we hear of multitudes of shootings, many over trivial things!
I am not a psychologist, but it appears to me that the majority of anger issues stem from a sense that a person's rights was violated or denied!
- Road rage occurs when someone is driving too slow and another person feels their right to drive faster is prohibited.
- Domestic violence is often caused by refusing to yield personal "rights."
- A teacher was brutally assaulted after she took away a student's computer toy.
- People get infuriated when someone cuts in line.
What would happen if instead of demanding OUR rights, we put others first? Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves. Philippians 2:3 I know that goes against human nature but I think it would solve many problems.
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