CHILL PILL

March 6, 2014

The most natural thing to do whenever we are provoked to anger is to give it to the person while it’s still very hot. There is a Nigerian slang that says, “As e dey hot,” meaning while it is still hot. In order words, don’t cool it down. Fire for fire! Give it back to the person with the same measure you were given.

In the book of Exo 32:19, Bible says, “And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.” Moses spent days on the mountain without food just so he could get the blueprint of God’s commandment for the children of Israel and the moment he got down and saw them messing up, he destroyed the commandments.

Jokingly, someone said Moses was the first person to break the commandments of God. Anyways, I have discovered that most times, relationships break not because there was or there is still no love, but because of how either of the parties involved handle their emotions especially when hurt. I understand that the most difficult thing to do is to take a chill pill when the other person is busy raining down fire and brimstones on you, but I tell you – if only you would try and swallow the bitter chill pill at that moment, you would realize that you would earn more respect.

Ecc 7:9 says, “Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools,” but even Prov 17:28 says, “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.” When next someone gets on your nerve, don’t be quick to react, or vent, just take a chill pill. Eph 4:31 says, “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you.”

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