Anger! It should be productive and not destructive

“Anger comes with strength, and the use of this strength is to break through the life limitations. it is to fight circumstances and not to fight people” – Victor O. Otobo. There is nothing wrong with anger or being angry. Anger is energy. It’s a potential and an ability that everyone have and must display if they want to rise from their fallen state, and to become successful in life. It’s an energy you need to channel for productive and not destructive use. The problem we often encounter with anger is that we abuse and misuse it. With so much anxiety in the work place, school, family circle and everywhere, relationships can sometimes be strained. Conflicts and quarrels abound, and before we know it, disagreement and even quarrels will have arose, anger and wrath have busted out, and the one we once love will have been hurt, perhaps deeply wounded. We all have displayed anger at some point in our life. As ‘imperfect’ humans that we are, we all get angry day in day out. Anger is much as part of our emotional make up as love, hope, anxiety, happiness and fear. How we express our anger is a matter of choice. Anger is one letter away from danger, so you will have to be careful how you express it. Ephesians 4:26 reads: “Be ye angry but sin not…”

“If people bottle up or repress their negative emotions, they will later resurface as psychological disorder such as hysteria.”  - Sigmud Freud {neurologist}. A lot of factors could spark up anger but the commonest as we will be discussing in this book and chapter of book is what I will describe as: ‘anger trigger.’ Anger trigger is anything that aggravates or infuriates someone. This trigger often results from injustice, transfer of aggression, unfairness, being slighted at or disrespected. Could it be that most humans do not understand how serious getting angry is? Jesus admonished in Matthew 5:22: “but I tell you, anyone who is angry with a brother will be subject to judgment … anyone who says: “you fool” will be in danger of hell.” How often do you call someone ‘fool’ or something worse in the fit of anger?

Anger should be productive and not destructive. Anger will be productive if it boosts our determination to overcome life limitations, setbacks, obstacles, problems, pitfalls and challenges. The difference between a possible life and an impossible life is determination. It is absolutely impossible to stop a determined person. You will find it difficult to rise from your fallen places in life, become better or climb higher in life, except you become angry with those factors limiting and keeping you down. Stop being lazy and get angry as you prepare to turn your obstacle to miracles. Anger becomes a virtue when it is used for the right course and it does not matter who or what you are up against, if the outcome is good, the means don’t really matter.