Yesterday we started a learning about displacement theory and how we must remove certain things or add others things to change the level of anything. Today, let’s explore what it would be like to bring extreme happiness and extreme satisfaction to the workplace. How many people are truly, extremely happy and satisfied in their work and jobs? Not many that I know but the ones who are stand out and are admired by just about everyone. Those who don’t admire them are usually the sourest of people and they just can’t stand to be around happy people anyway. So, what do we need to get rid of in our attitudes to be extremely happy? The other end of that spectrum is beyond anger, it is a boiling point that is called rage. Rage is defined as violent anger or burst of extreme anger. Usually we don’t see the external manifestations of rage in the workplace since we all know what happens when that does; people usually lose their jobs. But, that doesn’t mean that we don’t feel anger and rage inside of us. Who among us haven’t clinched a fist and jaw and wanted to scream out? Or maybe even that pen has come flying out of the hand and found itself on the other side of the office? Or that email flame-o-gram was about to be sent and then we held it back? Yes, we all have anger and some rage inside of us that if we want to find a place of extreme happiness we are going to have to replace and displace. Let’s search ourselves today and ask God to help us to recognize those trigger areas in our lives that surface our anger and rage and then remove them from us! Paul tells us this in Ephesians 4:31, “Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger..”

Reference: Ephesians 4:31 (New Living Testament)