So Often.............

.............he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. Prov. 15:18b
So often I allow my anger to control my life. So often my self-control, which as a child of God should be abounding, is cut short due to my pride. But what comes after pride? Destruction. Prov.16:18
So often I would rather bring up another man's sin then reveal my own.But if I desire love, I would also desire to cover that man's transgression. For if I repeat a matter concerning his sin, I seperate the very friendship I should desire to keep. Prov. 17:9
Oh to the wickedness of my heart. For I lay not aside my anger, and I run not to self-control. But rather in my pride and self will, I desire even at the expence of friendship, to win an arguement. But what is love? Is it something to show only to those who have already shown it to me? I despise that thought!For as a child of God, I must have love even for my enemies. How much more I should have it for those who are God's children. For if I say I love the Father, yet I love not who He loves, my love for Him is of no effect. For as I love the Father with heart, soul and mind, I ought to love those around me as myself. Doing to others as I would have done to me, that by that action of love, the world might see the Father and know I am His child.