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Hey, what is up? This is the Daily Drive podcast where we spend a few minutes unpacking God's word

Monday through Friday. I'm Mike Bro. Thanks for tuning in. In honor

of March Madness we've been talking this week, not about the final four, but about the fatal

four. Four things that we need to be aware of, four things that we need to game plan for so that

they don't take us out. We spent the first part of the week talking about the number one seed, the number one threat, pride.

If you missed it, ought to go back and give it a listen, because really everything we'll be talking about always goes back to that one.

Yesterday we began talking about the number two seed, the one that's like neck and neck with pride, a little thing called anger. And we read this from James chapter 1, verse 19 and 20, where he writes,

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters. You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak,

and slow to get angry. Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.

I told you yesterday that I give you a game

plan today for managing unhealthy anger, so let me just give you a few practical ways that God's

been teaching me through the years about handling my anger. The first one is this, reflect before you

react. Reflect before you react. Anger is a pretty complex emotion. One of the reasons anger is

as mysterious, complex, and baffling as it really is, is that most of the time our anger tends to

divert our attention away from the real issue, which is why psychologists often refer to anger as

the second emotion. We don't know

how to handle the first emotion that comes over us, so we just jump on over to anger. So it's

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