Someone once said, “For a happy marriage, when your wrong admit it, when your right shut up.” This is good advice and could eliminate many problems if adhered to. It’s also good for much more than just marriage.
What is it about the human workings that hates to admit, “I was wrong?” It just kind of hangs up in your throat doesn’t it.
How many arguments, fusses, disagreements, and “falling outs” could have been stopped in the initial stages, before things got out of hand, if either party would have just stopped and said “I’m sorry,” instead of going on in indifference. Sounds easy doesn’t it? Does it really matter who was wrong? Does it really matter what it was about? Fact is, we usually come up with plenty of reasons, and a lot of them from religious reasoning, why we have the right and reason to not be the one to give in. “After all, it’s the principle of the matter. I can’t show weakness by giving in, and besides, Jesus showed anger and righteous indignation.” Yeah He did, but He never came into sin as a result of it. Can we say that we usually don’t sin when we are angry?
Lord, guard my lips, mind, and heart against hurting those who I love, and love me, with angry words spoken in haste or out of my own hurt.
What does the Word of God say? Ephesians 4:23-32 & 5:4 23) And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24) And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. 25) Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. 26) Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: 27) Neither give place to the devil. 28) Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needs. 29) Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 30) And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 31) Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 32) And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
5:4) Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Pray this Prayer: Lord, guard my lips, mind, and heart against hurting those who I love, and love me, with angry words spoken in haste or out of my own hurt.
Remember God loves you! 
