James

Love is not easily angered…

– 1 Corinthians 13:5 (NIV)

The Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.

– Psalm 103:8 (NLT)

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

– Thomas a Kempis

Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.

– James 1:20 (NLT)

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

– Thomas Fuller

Fools vent their anger, but the wise quietly hold it back.

– Proverbs 29:11 (NLT)

Anger itself is not wrong. All emotions are created by God – It’s just that sin taints emotions. Sort of like fruit that goes bad. Worry is concern gone bad. Fury is anger gone bad.

– Jennifer Smith

Sensible people control their temper; they earn respect by overlooking wrongs.

– Proverbs 19:11 (NLT)

Photo by Susie Stewart

Words…

above the ground

skimming the surface

never digging in

never planted

as opposed to

Words

piercing the dirt

lodging deep

roots and shoot ever growing down and up

planted and solid

It’s a picture of how

the seed of God’s Word

is meant to be cultivated

in you

Its effects powerful

causing you to flourish

Soaking in

Living Water

Let the Seed of His Word

take root

and transform

– Susie Stewart

…humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

– James 1:21 (NIV)

…In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.

– James 1:21 (MSG)

But blessed are those who trust in the Lord
and have made the Lord their hope and confidence.
They are like trees planted along a riverbank,
with roots that reach deep into the water.
Such trees are not bothered by the heat
or worried by long months of drought.
Their leaves stay green,
and they never stop producing fruit.

– Jeremiah 17:7-8 (NLT)

Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.

– Psalm 1:1-3 (NLT)