Our heart is our belief center. We are encouraged throughout Scripture to hide His word in our heart. When we don’t it allows spiritual weeds to propagate quickly. Mark 4:19 calls them: cares of this world, deceitfulness of riches, and desire for other things, “…choke the word and it becomes unfruitful.”

Ephesians 4:26-27 says, “…do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.” Unresolved issues are ‘places’ that the enemy uses against us. Note that giving ground over to satan followed the warning to not go to bed with anything smoldering in  our heart.

Being angry comes in many forms. We might excuse this sin by camouflaging it in words such as frustrated, annoyed, or irritated. They are all reactions from our fleshly desires. Romans 12:9 says, “Let love be without hypocrisy…” Verse 10 ends with, “…in honor giving preference to one another.”