Anger
is one of those emotions that makes some people want to act out in hostile, aggressive ways. In others, anger
produces withdrawal and isolation. Expressing healthy, normal anger can clear
the air, articulate grievances, and establish better communications. Anger,
when conveyed appropriately, can be the pathway to deeper intimacy and
closeness.
Guilt, caused by inappropriate anger
or by justifiable anger expressed
inappropriately, leads to damaged integrity. You can't mix integrity and
guilt, just as oil and water do not mix.
Where guilt abounds, integrity suffers. As
a rudder is to a ship, so integrity is to a person. Integrity keeps you on
course even in the storms of life.
Integrity
helps you come back from failure to reclaim God's purpose. Strengthened by God's
word and the presence of Christ in you, integrity insists on confession,
repentance, and forgiveness so you can do what is right to correct what is
wrong. Where sin abounds, God's unmerited favor does much more abound. God's
grace gives you power to change.
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