Annoyance

OK, so  it is technically week two and I should have moved onto the second fruit I want to start growing, but I’m not quite done with patience.

I want to point out annoyance. Annoyance is pretty closely related to anger, but not quite the same thing. Being annoyed usually leads to anger.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.   Proverbs 12:16

Above is my favorite verse. Its one of the few verse I’ve learned on my own for personal reason. My brother enjoys annoying me. It’s usually mutual. But he is really really good at pushing my buttons. The important thing to remember is to use patience to not show the anger from being annoyed. It’s pretty difficult.

That’s all I really had to say upon the subject. But I wanted to add something about anger. There is a thing called righteous anger, which is not often what kind of anger we get. But even with righteous anger, we need to be careful with how it expressed.

I’m going to end this post with some more verses (all from Proverbs, so I think Solomon would agree with me) upon this past weeks subject:

A fool always loses his temper, But a wise man holds it back. Proverbs 29:11

Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city. Proverbs 16:32

A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel. Proverbs 15:18

Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil. Proverbs 37:8