DIFFUSING EXPLOSIVE RELATIONSHIPS: Living the Life You’ve Always Wanted- part 3 of 5

DIFFUSING EXPLOSIVE RELATIONSHIPS

Living the Life You’ve Always Wanted

And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger                                                                                                                                Exodus 34:6-7 (NIV)

erek apayim – slow to anger, literally “long of  “

“His steady, unrelenting, uncompromising antagonism to evil in all its forms.” – John Stott

God is:

• to anger

We are:

• to anger
• easily

When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs and with timbrels and lyres. As they danced, they sang: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”                    1 Samuel 18:6-7 (NIV)

 So from that time on Saul kept a jealous eye on David.                                                          1 Samuel 18:9 (NLT)

Not all anger directed at is about .

The next day an evil spirit from God came forcefully on Saul. He was prophesying in his house, while David was playing the lyre, as he usually did. Saul had a spear in his hand and he hurled it, saying to himself, “I’ll pin David to the wall.”                                                                                                                                                     1 Samuel 18:10 (NIV)

David’s Masterclass in Diffusion:

• He doesn’t it back. 

• He . 

• David continues to .

But then David’s conscience began bothering him because he had cut Saul’s robe. He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this to my lord the king. I shouldn’t attack the Lord’s anointed one, for the Lord himself has chosen him.” So David restrained his men and did not let them kill Saul.                              1 Samuel 24:5-7 (NLT)

There’s more of in us than we care to admit

So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin. I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate… Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? 

                                                                                                                                                                          Romans 7:14-15, 24 (NLT)

Who is forming my ?

(All Scripture Verses In new International unless otherwise noted.