I was vacuuming the floor when it became necessary to move the cord from one plug to another in order to reach into the next room. Trying to step around the sweeper I ran my little toe into the side of the machine. It’s absolutely amazing how much that hurt. The scream jumping from my lips was completely involuntary but entirely sincere. I noticed that my right hand was balled up in a fist & I had this tremendous urge to drive it through the closet door in front of me. Immediately my mind went into action trying to talk my fist out of its craving. My brain said, “I don’t want to pay for a new door! … Little hand you are likely to get hurt if you do that! … How will I explain to everyone else how the door was broken?”
There were a tense couple of seconds as my hand listened because even with all that wonderful logic being thrown at it, it still wanted to be driven through that door. Thankfully, both my fist & my door survived. Urges need to be controlled.
Urges are easily incited to do harm to their host. Maturity comes as we learn to live by discernment & truth rather than impulse & instinct. Just because someone’s words inspire you to take action does not mean those words come from God. The Holy Spirit inspires us but not everything that inspires us is from the Holy Spirit.