07/15/2026
Ecclesiastes 7:9 (NLT)
9 Control your temper, for anger labels you a fool.
The Word of God has much to say about our tempers. We talk about hot tempers, wild tempers, and controlling our tempers. We learn that all people have tempers. Every person can and is upset at times about some event and it affects our tempers. We lose our tempers with our children, at our jobs, at people, and events. Some would say this is just normal, but even in the difficulties of Jesus’ life; He could and did control His temper.
We are all guilty of losing our tempers and saying things we wish we hadn’t. To control our temper is a learned task and it requires much work and effort. I have lost my temper at times and confessed my sin to God. It is then that God uses that difficulty to teach me a lesson. Our tempers label us before other people. There are times we lose our temper over small things when it is easy to overlook the wrong. Many times, in life we are reactive and not proactive. Proactive tempers look at what has happened and seeks to make corrections. Reactive tempers often only lead to more problems.
God teaches us patience by working with our temper. We can’t worry about everything that someone does or does not do. We must learn to look to God and seek God’s understanding for our problem. Most of the time when we lose our temper it only leads to other problems. So, look at what this verse says to us, “Control your temper”. As we learn to control events in our life, we are growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus.
I have prayed for you this morning. I pray we learn to think before we speak or act and that presence and power of the Holy Spirit controls us.
Bro. Tom
