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Let not your passion rule your reason but let your reason rule your passion.
Now this is a bit of wisdom I learned just as I was reading about Herod the Great and how in his passion he ruled his reason because he should have been more observant of this fact, that if Jesus Christ was in fact the Messiah, as prophesied of old (after all Herod inquired of the chief priests and scribes who this was and where he was to be found)then why was he troubled? He had reigned for 35 years. He was an old man. This Messiah was no threat to his kingdom and honor and his majesty because he was, after all, Herod the Great!
Yes, if his reason was ruling his passion his passion would have been subdued, his anger controled and he would have said I will kiss the son and I will submit.
Christ said, "Kiss the son lest he be angry and ye perish from off the way." Herod's reason should have said, if this is the Messiah then this is, in fact, God and there is no fighting against Him without hazarding one's life and soul but his passion ruled his reason rather than his reason his passion.
And let us brethren...let us remember this fact that whenever we would become angry or passionate over some particular matter, observance, word or gesture let our reason rule our passion. Let us think it through carefully before acting hastefully.
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