TEMPER:
ATTEMPTS TO EXCUSE

We are always finding a new stratagem to cover up that devil—temper! You never read anywhere that a man lost his temper. Instead, he “got upset.” You never read that a woman lost her temper. Instead, she “was aggravated.” But those expressions usually mean the person lost his or her temper—“flew off the handle,” “got mad.” It is a spiritual, heart condition, not an emotional condition.

When people smile and nod their heads as I preach, that is not the real them. Those are more than likely conditioned reflexes. But when the same people have a temper upset, that is the real them. What they do out of their inner beings, out of their appetites, out of the explosions of their natures—that is really what they are.

John 8:44–47; Ephesians 4:31–32; Colossians 3:5–11

Faith Beyond Reason, 91, 92.