There is no temper

There is no temper so obdurately bad

"Love is patient, love is kind" 1 Corinthians 13:4

Life is too short to spend even one day of it in bickering and strife. Love is too sacred to be forever lacerated and torn by the ugly briers of sharp temper. Surely we ought to learn to be patient with others — since God has to show every day such infinite patience toward us.

Is not the very essence of true love, the spirit which is not easily provoked, which bears all things?

Can we not, then, train our life to sweeter gentleness?

Can we not learn to be touched even a little roughly, without resenting it?

Can we not bear little injuries and apparent injustices, without flying into an unseemly rage?

Can we not have in us something of the mind of Christ which will enable us, like Him, to endure all wrong and injury — and give back no word or look of bitterness?

The way over which we and our friend walk together, is too short to be spent in wrangling.

There is no temper so obdurately bad — that it cannot be trained into sweetness. The grace of God can take the most unlovely life — and transform it into the image of Christ!

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