Our Proverb for today is Proverbs 14:17
“A quick-tempered person does foolish things.”
What do we mean by “quick-tempered?”
Instead of quick-tempered, we use terms like: Hot-headed, grouchy, cranky, and mean. A more modern word we use is “triggered.” If you say something that someone doesn’t like, you have triggered them. Of course, that word means it is not the fault of the quick-tempered, hotheaded, screaming person. They have been triggered.
It sounds like God put a little switch on them and if you say the wrong thing, then that button gets triggered. A triggered person then flys off in a rage.
Heaven help those who get into the path of the triggered person. A quick-tempered or triggered person does foolish things.
Over the years, I have heard people try to justify hot-headedness with “I just let it out and then I am over it.”
So let me understand: You mean you open the door and throw fire into the room, and then you are okay? Everybody else can look out for themselves.
Let me give you two better responses.
First: Respond to hurts, but respond with kindness. If it works out then you have saved a relationship and maybe a soul.
Second: Choose not to remember wounds. One older lady was known for her kind life. When she was reminded of some offense against her. She responded with, “I don’t remember that. In fact, I specifically remember forgetting.”
Forget offenses and do it on purpose.
I’m Lonnie Davis
And these are thoughts worth thinking,