Powerful principles. Practical application.

• • What does it take to get you in a bad mood?

• • What does it take to ruin your day?

• • How easily can you be knocked off your happiness?

• • How easily are you angered?

• • How easily are you frustrated when things don’t turn out the way you wanted?

Being easily angered, offended, and frustrated are signs of spiritual and emotional immaturity.

Take a child, for example. A child is, by very definition, immature. That’s why at his third birthday party he can receive tons of gifts and be having tons of fun and all is right in his world. But if he accidentally lets go of his balloon and it drifts up into the sky, he has a complete meltdown. It doesn’t matter that there are a million things going right in his life, the lost balloon outweighs them all. He has not yet learned to see the bigger picture; thus he is easily angered and frustrated at little setbacks. In fact, little setbacks are not little at all to him.

The process of maturing for the little guy is the process of learning that a single balloon is not the end of the world. That there are other balloons. It’s the process of seeing the bigger picture and having a better perspective.

Unfortunately, many children never outgrow this immaturity when they become adults. They never gain a mature perspective. The slightest comment can throw them off. The smallest disappointment can ruin their day. The tiniest of perceived slights can ignite their wrath.

You probably know someone like that. But the question is… is it you?