3 Reasons to Get Out of the Sun

Try summer in Texas.

Or South Florida or Arizona. The sun will fry your scalp.

Stay out too long, and you’ll boil your blood. Your body won’t be able to cool off fast enough, and you’ll risk heatstroke and possible death.

That’s a good reason to get out of the sun.

Anger can make us feel the same way. We sense our blood about to boil. We are ready to blow our top, and heaven help anyone who’s around when we do.

We need to get in the shade. Find a place out of anger’s blaring sun. Slow down and let the sweetness of peace cool us inside.

The book of Proverbs gives us 3 Reasons to Get Out of the Sun.

Our 1st Reason:

Proverbs 22:24-25 says angry people can give us a sunburn.

“Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.”

We need to leave them outside and find our respite in the shade of a peaceful friend.

Our 2nd Reason:

Proverbs 19:11 tells us overlooking others’ flaws is like a drink of cool water.

“Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.”

We can find the shady path if we look for it. It’s up to us where we walk.

Our 3rd Reason:

Proverbs 21:19 says we can easily burn others with our anger.

“It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.”

The Texas sun in a white-hot sky pales with the scorching we get from an angry person.

God says to get out of the sun. Run from angry people. They will drag us into the fire of their emotional maelstrom.

God is our shade. He is our peace. We find our cooling solace in him.

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