[Songs in the Night - January 14]
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. James 1:19
THE force of character which permits of anger is
the very same force which otherwise directed signifies
intensity of love: the inability to be angry under proper
cause would imply imperfection, blemishes, just as
inability to love strongly would imply similar defects of
character....We who have been begotten of the Holy
Spirit and who thus have the "mind of Christ," have
the mind or disposition that is loving, generous, kind,
forgiving toward our fellows and that is reverential
and obedient toward God.
This is the spirit or disposition
that is of the Father and of the Son: the opposite
disposition or spirit is of the Adversary.
The
two spirits or dispositions are so opposite that we cannot
have both at once—we cannot serve God and mammon,
Christ and Belial. Z'07-26 R3928:2,4 (Hymn 49)